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Tech Tuesday: The Role of Experience
Albert Wenger – Aug 13, 2013
I have written before on Tech Tuesday on how to grow engineering teams but wanted to tackle this issue again from a slightly different perspective: what is the role of experience? Startup engineering teams often start out skewing very young [...] Read more
To Fix Surveillance, Fix Government
Albert Wenger – Aug 9, 2013
Short post because I am away with the family, but I can’t help myself given the shutdowns of Lavabit and Silent Mail. This is what I mean when I say we are headed for a spy-versus-spy society between citizens and [...] Read more
Listening Too Much / Too Little
Albert Wenger – Aug 8, 2013
It’s been a while since I have written a post in my Scylla and Charybdis series. As a quick refresher, the basic premise of the series is that startups are hard because on pretty much anything you can do too [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Prioritization and Competition
Albert Wenger – Aug 6, 2013
I have written about prioritization previously on Tech Tuesday, introducing a prioritization heuristic and emphasizing the importance of a healthy mix of different projects. Today I want to add some point on how to think about competition in the context [...] Read more
Movie Trailers and Startup Summaries
Albert Wenger – Aug 5, 2013
I love going to the movies and I love science fiction. This summer is bringing a bumper crop of scifi movies (broadly defined). One of the fun aspects for me of going to see a movie is that I will [...] Read more
Here Come the Native Tablet Learning Apps: Homer and Curious Hat
Albert Wenger – Aug 1, 2013
Whenever a new medium or technology becomes available the initial approach is to “repurpose” existing content, such as filmed radio on television. Many of the big education publishers have been approaching tablets that way. They try to grab some assets [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: Re-integrating Knowledge
Albert Wenger – Jul 31, 2013
Last week in the starter edition of Homeschool Wednesdays, I got a ton of fantastic advice on key things everyone should know. I will figure out how to get these into some kind of wiki or maybe use Firepad (suggestions [...] Read more
The Disruption of Venture Capital
Albert Wenger – Jul 29, 2013
I often talk to people about how the fundamental premise of our investing at Union Square Ventures is that the Internet is disrupting everything. Sometimes people ask whether that includes Venture Capital. I always answer: Of course it does! It [...] Read more
Meta Data and Government By and For the People
Albert Wenger – Jul 26, 2013
The Wall Street Journal had an opinion piece earlier this week with the tantalizing title “Metadata Liberation Movement” that reflects some of my thinking on network analysis. The column asks an important question: “With respect to the […] metadata surveillance, [...] Read more