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Online Pitch Practice For Women Entrepreneurs
Albert Wenger – Feb 10, 2014
Susan and I are trying something new: we are offering an online pitch practice aimed at women entrepreneurs. Susan came up with this idea based on working hard to hone her own pitch for Ziggeo (which is also the platform [...] Read more
Inflation vs Deflation
Albert Wenger – Feb 6, 2014
I have written a fair bit about inflation in the past, starting with a post about inflation versus deflation during the financial crises in 2008, which I then followed with three posts in 2009. We are now finding ourselves in [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: Conscious Parenting
Albert Wenger – Feb 5, 2014
One crucial impact of homeschooling is that you spend way more time with your children (even when you use quite a few tutors as we do). This will test your relationship with your children in new and unexpected ways and [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Amortization
Albert Wenger – Feb 4, 2014
The last few Tech Tuesdays have all been about computational complexity. One of the problems that we looked at a couple of times was finding a match (eg a word on a page). And for good reason as matching is [...] Read more
Stop TPP Fast Track (At Least Modify It)
Albert Wenger – Feb 3, 2014
If you are a long time reader of Continuations, you will know that I wrote repeatedly about ACTA, the attempt to strengthen global intellectual property rights that was soundly defeated by the European Parliament. At the time I mentioned that [...] Read more
Going Public: Rational Expectations and Bad Equilibria
Albert Wenger – Jan 31, 2014
Earlier this week I was talking to a group of investment bankers about the process of going public. In particular I was drilling in on the much vaunted need for revenue visibility as a basis for giving quarterly guidance. Every [...] Read more
Google Selling Motorola Mobility: Rejecting Vertical Integration
Albert Wenger – Jan 30, 2014
One of the many good things about blogging is that one can go back in time and look at one’s own thinking in a more objective way. Without putting it in writing it is all too easy to pretend, as [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: Quarterly Reports (Startup Opportunity!)
Albert Wenger – Jan 29, 2014
Today we will be filing our quarterly reports with the New York City Department of Education. In addition to the Individualized Home Instruction Plan (or IHIP), quarterly reports are one of the legal requirements for homeschooling in New York. The [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Growth Behavior (Big O Notation)
Albert Wenger – Jan 28, 2014
Today’s Tech Tuesday will let you in on a bit of computer science secret language. Sometimes when discussing a solution to a problem an engineer will say something like “that’s too slow – it’s O of n squared” (that’s the [...] Read more