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Homeschool Wednesday: Lifelong Learning
Albert Wenger – Aug 21, 2013
Time for Homeschool Wednesday! On of the biggest goals for homeschooling that I can think of is to instill a desire for lifelong learning and to provide the tools to achieve that. As I am beginning to understand from reading [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Team Diversity
Albert Wenger – Aug 20, 2013
I already hinted at this topic in my last Tech Tuesday, when I wrote about having a healthy mix of young and more experienced engineers. More generally, diversity in engineering teams (and teams more generally) tends to be a healthy [...] Read more
MBA Mondays: When Its Not Your Team
Fred Wilson – Aug 19, 2013
Phil Sugar left a great comment on last week's MBA Mondays about Turning Your Team: Do not think that the reason you aren't scaling is because you need to bring in outside management. That will kill a team. This is [...] Read more
Not So Broad Band: We Need a Utility Model
Albert Wenger – Aug 19, 2013
We live Chelsea, which is a mostly residential neighborhood in Manhattan and theoretically one of the world’s leading cities. Yet I have a choice of exactly one true broadband provider: Time Warner Cable. Verizon at my address offers DSL only, [...] Read more
The Similarities Between Building and Scaling a Product and a Company
Fred Wilson – Aug 15, 2013
This has been a theme of mine since Roelof Botha put it in my head a few years ago. He said that entrepreneurs should approach building a company with the same passion that they have for building a product. I've [...] Read more
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
MBA Mondays: Turning Your Team
Fred Wilson – Aug 12, 2013
A serial entrepreneur I know tells me "you will turn your team three times on the way from startup to a business of scale." What he means is that the initial team will depart, replaced by another team, which in [...] Read more
Fearless
Andy Weissman – Aug 12, 2013
A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys Last winter someone gave me a Nexus Android device they got at a Google event. It didn't have phone service so [...] 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