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5 Minutes of Happiness Each Day
Andy Weissman – Nov 3, 2011
My friend Mike White told me the other day that he uses the photo sharing service Instagram because it makes him happy. That stuck in my head.So I remembered that the mission statement for the Cheezburger Network is "5 minutes [...] Read more
Greece and Occupy Wallstreet (and Startup Financing)
Albert Wenger – Nov 2, 2011
The European Union (EU) has been a work in progress for many years. Since its inception there has been tremendous tension between what can be decided at the EU level and what is decided by the individual countries. Despite an [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Main Memory (Dumb, Lazy and Slow)
Albert Wenger – Nov 1, 2011
In “Of Bits and Bytes” we learned that all kinds of data such as numbers, text, graphics and much more can be represented as sequences of bits. Then last week we saw that instructions for the CPU are also simply [...] Read more
VP Engineering Vs CTO
Fred Wilson – Oct 31, 2011
Last week on MBA Mondays I posted about the difference between CFO and VP Finance. In the comments to that post, I was asked about VP Eng vs CTO and I figured that had the makings of a good post [...] Read more
Trust and Personal Scaling
Albert Wenger – Oct 31, 2011
I have had the privilege of observing a number of founders grow their companies from just a few people to over a hundred employees. Leaving all the other growth challenges aside, I have come to conclude that personal scaling is [...] Read more
Codecademy
Albert Wenger – Oct 28, 2011
Andy has a great post over at the USV blog announcing our investment in Codecademy. Knowing how computers work and how to program them I believe will be quintessential knowledge for everyone. It is shocking to me that I had [...] Read more
Help Stop the Internet Censorship Bill
Albert Wenger – Oct 27, 2011
There is an awful bill making its way around congress. I first wrote about this when it was called COICA and was thankfully defeated due to opposition from Senator Ron Wyden. Then it returned as the PROTECT IP act or [...] Read more
John McCarthy
Albert Wenger – Oct 26, 2011
This has been a strange month with several of the giants of computing passing away within weeks of each other. I have already written about Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie. Now John McCarthy, the father of Lisp and early AI [...] Read more
VP Finance vs CFO
Fred Wilson – Oct 24, 2011
Today on MBA Mondays we are going to talk about the financial leader in an organization. Sometimes this person is called the VP Finance and sometimes they are called the CFO. What is the difference? When will a VP Finance [...] Read more