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Tech Tuesday: Hiring Engineers
Albert Wenger – Apr 23, 2013
The last two posts on Tech Tuesday were both about growing your engineering organization. Someone wrote to me saying: it’s all well to talk about best practices for organizational design, but we can’t find enough qualified engineers in the first [...] Read more
You Are Working Too Hard And Not Getting Anywhere
Fred Wilson – Apr 22, 2013
Continuing the case method on MBA Mondays, I am going to tell a story about a business model pivot that was not a full business pivot. In the lull between Flatiron and Union Square Ventures, I made a few angel [...] Read more
The Double Edged Sword of Technology and the Need for Values
Albert Wenger – Apr 19, 2013
If ever we needed a reminder that technology can both make our lives better and more terrifying this week provided plenty of them. Pressure cookers for cooking and bomb making. Fertilizer for agriculture and explosions (sadly also used in the [...] Read more
Google Glass: Dangerous Adoption Strategy
Albert Wenger – Apr 18, 2013
I am quite optimistic about the long term potential of augmented reality. But I question whether now is the right time for a top down adoption strategy with a polished consumer product. It seems to me that we are at [...] Read more
Boston Bombing
Albert Wenger – Apr 16, 2013
No Tech Tuesday today, I will resume next week. I have many friends in Boston and knew several people who were in the Marathon. Whatever the police may call the investigation, as far as I am concerned this bombing was [...] Read more
Tenacity And Persistence Pays Off
Fred Wilson – Apr 15, 2013
Continuing the theme of case studies for MBA Mondays, I want to use a milestone that was passed last night to make a bigger point about startups. I have known Scott Heiferman since the late 90s. He was one of [...] Read more
Guantanamo Bay Is Despicable and Must Go
Albert Wenger – Apr 15, 2013
I was planning to write more on cyber security but then yesterday I read this harrowing letter from a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo). I don’t take his claims about his lack of involvement at face value. It is irrelevant. [...] Read more
Foursquare
Albert Wenger – Apr 11, 2013
Lots of good news about Foursquare. You can read about it from Dennis, Bijan, Fred and myself. I love using the new version of the app – go check it out. All feedback on it is welcome! Read more
Stop Congress From Making a Bad Computer Law Worse
Albert Wenger – Apr 10, 2013
I have written previously about cyber security and cyber defense topics that have become more acute in the wake of several large scale attacks on banks and other companies. Unfortunately, law makers in DC are reacting the only way they [...] Read more