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The Board Of Directors: Board Meetings
Fred Wilson – Apr 2, 2012
The Board Meeting is the primary way that Boards function. This post is about making Board meetings effective and helpful for everyone involved. A Board cannot be effective if it doesn't get together frequently. Some Boards meet monthly. I like [...] Read more
Privacy Theater
Albert Wenger – Apr 2, 2012
I wrote recently about how we are at a time during which lots of little decisions will determine whether we find ourselves in an information utopia or dystopia. There is a lot of legislation in the works both here in [...] Read more
Generations
Andy Weissman – Mar 29, 2012
One of the most interesting trends in technology and business and politics today is what I like to think of as the generational one. Meaning, what happens when the group of kids who grew up with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Youtube, [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Web Browser (Part 2)
Albert Wenger – Mar 27, 2012
Today is the wrap up of the initial web cycle. Last Tech Tuesday, I introduced Javascript as determining the behavior of a web page and interacting with HTML (the content of the page) and CSS (the look and feel). Now [...] Read more
Movie Review: The Hunger Games
Albert Wenger – Mar 26, 2012
This weekend I went to see “The Hunger Games” with our oldest son (12). His twin sister separately saw the movie as part of a friend’s birthday party. For anyone who has been behind a gigantic rock, er, I mean [...] Read more
Offense is the Best Defense for Startups
Albert Wenger – Mar 22, 2012
Once in a while I find myself in a product or strategy or biz dev discussion at a startup which goes something like: “we are doing xyz to defend against ”. My reaction is to ask whether xyz is also [...] Read more
Choosing Our Information-Based Future: Utopia or Dystopia?
Albert Wenger – Mar 21, 2012
We are at a perilous fork in history where many of the choices that we are making now and in the coming years will determine whether we are headed towards an information-based utopia or dystopia. It is not any single [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Javascript
Albert Wenger – Mar 20, 2012
The topic of last week’s Tech Tuesday was CSS, which determines the look and feel of the content of a web page (where the content itself is described in HTML). Today we will learn about Javascript, which is a programming [...] Read more
Pornography, Human Trafficking and the Internet
Albert Wenger – Mar 19, 2012
It is easy to dismiss Rick Santorum’s promised war on pornography as more moralizing from a candidate who apparently questions the separation of church and state. But it exposes an important fault line in thinking about the Internet when seen [...] Read more