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MBA Mondays: Revenue Models
Fred Wilson – Dec 3, 2012
A revenue model is "the system design by which a business monetizes its services". That comes from Wikipedia. I like that definition. Short, sweet, and to the point. I am going to spend the next couple months talking about revenue [...] Read more
Thinking About Employment (Part 4)
Albert Wenger – Dec 3, 2012
In part 3 of this series I argued that the changes in employment are the main driver behind the massive rise in inequality in the US. That inevitably brings out a number of responses for how to address inequality, none [...] Read more
Feature Friday: Guest Checkout with Dwolla
Albert Wenger – Nov 30, 2012
When Union Square Ventures invested in Dwolla we were excited about the team’s approach to payments. But there was a big limitation which made initial use of Dwolla a bit daunting: you had to have a funded Dwolla account which [...] Read more
Movie Mini Reviews: Looper, Skyfall, Lincoln, Life of Pi
Albert Wenger – Nov 30, 2012
I have been too busy with more important topics to write movie reviews. So here are a few mini reviews (reviewlets?) of movies I have seen recently. I wanted to like both Looper and Skyfall but didn’t really. Conversely, my [...] Read more
MBA Mondays: The Revenue Model Hackpad, Take Two
Fred Wilson – Nov 27, 2012
So I messed up bigtime yesterday. I created a "final version" of the revenue model hackpad and locked it down so hard that nobody could even see it. What happened is I am using a product, hackpad, that I don't [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Programming (Interim Review)
Albert Wenger – Nov 27, 2012
I started the Tech Tuesday series on programming in April of this year with an overview post that compared programming to telling a person how to do something. At the time, I presented nine different questions that this raises, such [...] Read more
Sign Up for My Skillshare Class on Probability
Albert Wenger – Nov 26, 2012
It was great fun to see XKCD take up the subject of Bayesian probability. That was a good reminder that it’s been a while since I taught my Skillshare class on the subject. And so I have added a new [...] Read more
Thinking About Employment (Part 3)
Albert Wenger – Nov 25, 2012
This is the third post in my mini series on employment. Part 1 illustrated how agriculture and manufacturing, the two historically large areas of employment, have collapsed over time. Part 2 drilled into the services sector which today accounts for [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Algorithms (Wrap Up)
Albert Wenger – Nov 20, 2012
Today’s Tech Tuesday post will wrap up the algorithms mini-series. Last Tuesday I presented implementations of the same algorithm in five different languages. I had mentioned in an earlier post that the particular problem we are solving – seeing if [...] Read more