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Tech Tuesday: Choosing Your Technologies (Continued)
Albert Wenger – Mar 12, 2013
Last Tech Tuesday I offered some very rough guidelines for making technology choices in a startup. I was going to write today about how to evolve that over time, but one of the comments suggested that it would be great [...] Read more
Your Security Perimeter Is Larger Than You Think
Albert Wenger – Mar 11, 2013
Securing your site or service has become ever more important as the number of attacks is rapidly on the rise. As I have written before on Continuations I am not a fan of overreaching security legislation as a response. If [...] Read more
WeHeartWifi: Getting the Most out of Spectrum
Albert Wenger – Mar 8, 2013
From a purely engineering perspective we can calculate the optimal amount of interference for a particular band of spectrum. We want just enough to achieve coverage. Any more is simply a waste of power. It is that knowledge of a [...] Read more
Standing Against Excessive Executive Power
Albert Wenger – Mar 7, 2013
Because I consider myself a peer progressive who believes in some role for government and the existence of market failures, I usually don’t agree with Senator Rand Paul. But I strongly support the basis of his filibuster of John Brennan’s [...] Read more
The Introverts Dilemma
Andy Weissman – Mar 7, 2013
I don't think introverts actually define themselves as introverts. Instead, we know the feeling, the uncomfortable moment of human interaction after you say something in person to someone and you suffer the potential ego death while awaiting their reaction. It's [...] Read more
The Sequester: Fixing the Federal Budget
Albert Wenger – Mar 6, 2013
I have been wanting to write about the sequester for a couple of days and have been stymied by not knowing where to start because I deeply disagree with both sides. It’s a bit like observing two of our kids [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Choosing Your Technologies When You Start
Albert Wenger – Mar 5, 2013
This is the first of a new series of Tech Tuesday posts on Technology in Startups. Today’s topic: choosing your technologies. As a startup when you are just getting going, you have the luxury of picking any technology you want [...] Read more
Whither MBA Mondays?
Fred Wilson – Mar 4, 2013
I have been writing MBA Mondays every week since January 2010. There have been roughly 160 MBA Mondays posts to date. It is a substantial body of work. I have no clue how many words I have written on this [...] Read more
RGB Colors, Math And Generative Art (An Educational Romp)
Albert Wenger – Mar 4, 2013
My older son asked me yesterday about how colors on the screen work. We started talking about the history of the RGB color model including early color screen technology. That eventually led to a discussion of how the RGB color [...] Read more