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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
Homeschool Wednesday: Starter Edition
Albert Wenger – Jul 24, 2013
Today marks the first edition of what will be Homeschooling Wednesdays (not sure it will be every Wednesday, we’ll see). We have been making good progress finding guides and tutors but still are interested in meeting more people, so if [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Documentation
Albert Wenger – Jul 23, 2013
Several of the past Tech Tuesdays have been about topics that often get short shrift in startups, including security, backup and disaster recovery planning. Today I want to write about another topic in that annoying-but-needs-some-attention category: documentation. One of my [...] Read more
The Past Fighting the Future
Albert Wenger – Jul 22, 2013
One of my favorite quotes is William Gibson’s “The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.” He apparently said this for the first time as far back as 1993 and it seems more true today than [...] Read more
Demand Transparency on Surveillance Now
Albert Wenger – Jul 18, 2013
The Internet makes possible unprecedented levels of transparency. That is why it all the more disconcerting that large government programs operate entirely in secret. Nick Grossman has an important post up today on the USV blog about starting by giving [...] Read more