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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
Tech Tuesday: Build It And They Will Come?
Albert Wenger – Sep 17, 2013
One of the lasting legacies of YCombinator will be that it empowered engineers as company founders without the need for someone with a business background. At USV we have backed several all engineering teams out of YC and otherwise. These [...] Read more
Defending Barrett Brown, Linking and Transparency
Albert Wenger – Sep 16, 2013
When I wrote that we need protest and change rather than more crypto many people accused me of being naive and/or not proposing concrete enough alternatives. Well here is one thing you can do immediately: donate money to Barrett Brown’s [...] Read more
Adding Value: The Big Picture (Advice from VCs)
Albert Wenger – Sep 12, 2013
Vinod Khosla said yesterday at Techcrunch Disrupt that one of the hardest things for entrepreneurs is to figure out whose advice to trust on what topic. That is spot on because as an entrepreneur you will get advice from just [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: 9/11
Albert Wenger – Sep 11, 2013
One of the advantages of homeschooling is that it is easy to change the schedule to accommodate special events. On Monday morning we did just that. Jack Hidary, whose campaign for mayor of New York we have been supporting, was [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Cloud and Reliability
Albert Wenger – Sep 10, 2013
I have often said that Amazon has done more for startups than all of us early stage VCs combined. I really don’t see a startup anymore these days that is not getting going on either Amazon or sometimes Rackspace’s cloud [...] Read more