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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
Exit Interviews
Fred Wilson – Sep 16, 2013
I am a big fan of exit interviews. I have learned more doing exit interviews than most other management techniques. When people are on their way out and have no fear of saying exactly what they think, you can learn [...] 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
Why It’s Expensive to be Poor (And Why It Shouldn’t Be)
Nick Grossman – Sep 13, 2013
I spent the day yesterday at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in DC, at an event discussing mobile payments and related innovations and regulatory issues. Naturally, this is a big issue, with the huge rush to mobile everything, the continued expansion of [...] 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
Sharing
Andy Weissman – Sep 12, 2013
This is for me the essence of true romance Sharing the things we know and love with those of my kind Libations, sensations That stagger the mind -Steely Dan We are in the middle of the sharing age - Internet [...] 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