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The Aereo Case
Albert Wenger – Apr 23, 2014
Living in New York City and having cut the cord years ago, Aereo has been a terrific service for us. Yesterday the US Supreme Court started hearing arguments over whether the service is legal. Timothy B. Lee has an outstanding [...] Read more
More on Wealth and Randomness
Albert Wenger – Apr 22, 2014
Yesterday I wrote about startup wealth and randomness and got a lot of good comments. One of them led me to an important way of summarizing my argument about the role of randomness: While I wrote the post specifically about [...] Read more
Startup Wealth and Randomness
Albert Wenger – Apr 21, 2014
I have been writing a lot about wealth and income inequality and I am reading Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century (review forthcoming as soon as I am finished). So it seems appropriate to ask how I feel about [...] Read more
Liberating (Innovation in) Mobile
Albert Wenger – Apr 17, 2014
Chris Dixon recently wrote a post about the decline of the mobile web and the shift to apps and how that is hurting innovation. Fred expanded on that theme in his post on the mobile downturn. So it is worth [...] Read more
Wealth and Speculation
Albert Wenger – Apr 16, 2014
At the moment I am writing about why I think the industrial system is breaking down as its main components are no longer functioning properly and sustaining each other. In particular I wrote about the growth and increased concentration of [...] Read more
Writing Software Applications In-House
Albert Wenger – Apr 14, 2014
There is something very exciting going on in the world of software: a shift towards developing new application software in-house (as opposed to relying on third party offerings). For instance, at USV we have developed the linksharing on usv.com and [...] Read more
Wealth and Voting
Albert Wenger – Apr 9, 2014
Earlier this week I started writing about wealth and financial capital as part of examining how the various components of the industrial system are beginning to break down. I will have more to say about the financial capital portion of [...] Read more
Heartbleed: Social Change and Decentralized Identity
Albert Wenger – Apr 9, 2014
While gathering up additional data for the next post on wealth, here are some thoughts on the Heartbleed security vulnerability. At USV we sent out a notice of the issue to all the heads of engineering as well as all [...] Read more
Wealth and Financial Capital
Albert Wenger – Apr 7, 2014
Last week I introduced my view that the various interlocking components of the industrial system are beginning to break down. The first one I mentioned was that “financial markets have been allocating capital into vast asset bubbles instead of into [...] Read more