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The Management Team – While Building Product
Fred Wilson – Jan 2, 2012
The first stage of a startup, what I call the Building Product stage is management light. The team should be small. We have portfolio companies like del.icio.us and duck duck go where the Building Product stage was accomplished by one [...] Read more
Small Things
Andy Weissman – Jan 2, 2012
Normally, I'm against big things. I think the world's going to be solved by millions of small things - Pete SeegerOne of my favorite quotes, said with typical humility by Pete Seeger on the celebration concert in honor of his [...] Read more
Scaling The Management Team
Fred Wilson – Dec 26, 2011
My friend Bijan wrote a great post last week about the challenges a startup faces in scaling its team and building a management layer. His post inspired me to start a new series here on MBA Mondays about scaling a [...] Read more
Public Parts by Jeff Jarvis (Book Review)
Albert Wenger – Dec 21, 2011
In Public Parts, Jeff Jarvis tackles the incredibly challenging and important topic of the impact of the internet on privacy and publicness. Jeff calls himself a “publicness advocate” in contrast with the often nameless “privacy advocates” who are cited whenever [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Survey Says!
Albert Wenger – Dec 20, 2011
Thanks for everyone who participated in the Tech Tuesday survey. I learned a lot. First off, not surprisingly, my audience overall is fairly tech savvy with 2/3rds knowing at least how to code up HTML and over ½ having done [...] Read more
ALF Yourself: Tracking Your CO2 Footprint Via AMEE + Foursquare
Albert Wenger – Dec 19, 2011
Last week I was in London to spend time with the team from AMEE. On the flight to London, I read an article that provided a potent reminder of the importance of measuring CO2 emissions. The Independent had a big [...] Read more
Louis CK and the Future of Paid Content
Albert Wenger – Dec 14, 2011
Comedians get to say what most of us think but don’t have the courage or circumstance to say. Louis CK has a fantastic new special out (warning: if you are easily offended this is definitely not for you) that is [...] Read more
Talking About A Generation
Andy Weissman – Dec 13, 2011
Generations is the title of a a fascinating (and dense) book by William Strauss and Neil Howe that theorizes that history advances cyclically based on repeating types of generational characteristics. Generally, history creates generations, and generations create history. More specifically, [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Asking for Direction
Albert Wenger – Dec 13, 2011
So I got up earlier than usual this morning to work on a post about more details on how CPUs work and some actual assembly language. In particular I was planning to introduce the notion of registers and maybe the [...] Read more