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Silk Road and Law Enforcement Online
Albert Wenger – Oct 3, 2013
So yesterday the Feds busted the guy behind Silk Road, the marketplace for drugs and other illegal things paid in bitcoin. The indictment reads like a screenplay for a movie or Breaking Bad style television series (not that I watched [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: The Trinity of Design
Albert Wenger – Oct 1, 2013
The last two Tech Tuesdays were about common blindspots for all engineering founding teams (marketing, sales) and ditto for all business founding teams (technology). In the comments Brandon asked “how many designer led companies have these problems”? The short answer [...] Read more
The ABC of Startup Recruiting
Albert Wenger – Sep 30, 2013
Later today I am giving a talk titled the “ABC of Startup Recruiting” as part of a speaker series that Susan is putting together for Ziggeo. This is the first time I am giving this talk and I am quite [...] Read more
Without Their Permission by Alexis Ohanian (Book Review)
Albert Wenger – Sep 26, 2013
Thanks to an early copy (full disclosure: provided by Alexis – thanks!) I just had the pleasure of reading Alexis Ohanian’s “Without Their Permission” on my flight back from SF to New York. The book will come out on October [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: Science
Albert Wenger – Sep 25, 2013
Last week in Homeschool Wednesdays I wrote about the New York State requirement for an Individualized Home Instruction Plan (IHIP). One of the sections that I have been thinking a fair bit about is science. So I have started to [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Don’t Fear Technology!
Albert Wenger – Sep 24, 2013
Last Tech Tuesday I wrote about how engineering led companies sometimes underrate the importance of marketing and sales. One of the comments on Twitter pointed out that the converse is also often true and I replied that I will write [...] Read more
German Elections: Flight to Safety
Albert Wenger – Sep 23, 2013
Germany elected its national parliament yesterday and the results are quite interesting. Angela Merkel’s party the CDU/CSU added substantial gains going from 33.8% in 2009 to 41.5% of the public vote now. That is almost the largest majority for any [...] Read more
We Need Broadly Deployed Two Factor Auth
Albert Wenger – Sep 20, 2013
A few days ago I wrote about my support of the defense fund for Barrett Brown. One of the reasons regulators and legislators seem to think we need such over the top draconian sentences is because we have the wrong [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: Individualized Home Instruction Plan (Startup Opportunity!)
Albert Wenger – Sep 18, 2013
States have different regulations for homeschooling. New York State requires the filing of an IHIP or Individualized Home Instruction Plan. Here are the governing regulation and the official FAQ about IHIPs. We are currently working on the IHIPs for our [...] Read more