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The Fight of Our Lifetime: Past against Future
Albert Wenger – Jan 17, 2017
Many of the people in power or currently grabbing for it are trying to maintain the recent past or even go back further. This is the fight of our lifetime. The Past against the Future. It is NOT: left against [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Coin Flipping (Example)
Albert Wenger – Jan 11, 2017
I was going to start formalizing the concepts from Uncertainty Wednesday but I got a reader suggestion to do this in the context of a coin flipping example. This is what pretty much every introductory text uses because, well, coin [...] Read more
Choosing a New Laptop
Albert Wenger – Jan 9, 2017
Seems that roughly every 4 years I consider which laptop to buy and use. In 2008 I switched from a Panasonic CF-W2 to a Macbook Air. At the time I was on my second Panasonic and I had been using [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Zoltar Example (Part 4)
Albert Wenger – Jan 4, 2017
And we are back! Sorry for the, ahem, uncertainty about when Uncertainty Wednesday would appear. I decided to work less this year on vacation and that included not blogging. Today we will wrap up the Zoltar Example. In Part 3, [...] Read more
Looking for a Research Assistant
Albert Wenger – Jan 3, 2017
For 2017 I made two New Year’s resolutions. The first is to get into better shape (yes, like just about everyone else judging from the crowd at the gym today). The second is to finish my book World After Capital. [...] Read more
2017
Albert Wenger – Jan 2, 2017
Having been fortunate to take two weeks off on a family vacation and stayed away from most news, I feel ready to tackle 2017. Going into this new year I am reminding myself of two principles that apply equally well [...] Read more
Numerai and Polychain
Fred Wilson – Dec 13, 2016
USV recently made two investments in hedge fund managers. You might gather from that fact that we are moving away from venture capital. But that would be an incorrect assumption. What we are doing is finding new ways to invest [...] Read more
How To Cold Email an Investor
Albert Wenger – Dec 12, 2016
Last week I noticed that I had received several cold emails from entrepreneurs that started in exactly the same fashion: So I decided to tweet about it because it appeared as if people had just copied a template. Sure enough [...] Read more
An Opportunity for States and Cities
Albert Wenger – Dec 9, 2016
I have not been writing a lot because I am still digesting much of what the outcome of the US election and Trump’s presidency may bring. One thought that is forming though is that States will play a much bigger [...] Read more