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Innovation: Perez vs Thiel (Optimism vs Pessimism)
Albert Wenger – Oct 10, 2011
Tomorrow I will be attending an “Innovation Summit” hosted by the Darden School of Business. I just finished reading Peter Thiel’s “The End of the Future” in the National Review. Thiel’s argument is that underlying our economic difficulties is a [...] Read more
Steve Jobs
Albert Wenger – Oct 6, 2011
It feels a bit strange now that I wrote a post yesterday morning about “Apple’s Glory Years,” not realizing that in the evening I would see the news that Steve Jobs had passed away. There have been many excellent tributes [...] Read more
Announcing Tech Tuesdays
Albert Wenger – Oct 4, 2011
Fred’s MBA Mondays series has been really terrific and has inspired me to start a Tech Tuesdays series, which will launch next Tuesday. The subtitle for Tech Tuesdays could be: Everything you always wanted to know about computers but were [...] Read more
Needed: The Opposing View Reader
Albert Wenger – Oct 3, 2011
I have tried out quite a few social news readers and they all suffer from pretty much the same flaw: they give me more of the same. I will already have seen most of the stories that they present in [...] Read more
Marketplaces Vs. Middlemen
Albert Wenger – Sep 30, 2011
The NYT covered a company called cater2.me the other day under the headline “The Middleman is Thriving on the Internet.” Throughout the article the author refers to the company as an example of middlemen, including in the following: While this [...] Read more
Minimum Viable Personality
Fred Wilson – Sep 29, 2011
Today we have a special guest post. There have been a few guest posts here at AVC. Maybe a half dozen in total. One of my favorites was this one by JLM during the financial crisis of 2008/2009. But this [...] Read more
Protest Is Good, Disruption Is Better
Albert Wenger – Sep 28, 2011
I am supportive of the #occupywallstreet protest as an exercise of First Amendment rights. I too am frustrated with a financial and economic system that has made the rich richer, has hollowed out the middle class and has ever more [...] Read more
Disclosure
Albert Wenger – Sep 27, 2011
Today is one of my favorite days of the year. We are having the Union Square Ventures portfolio summit where for one day founders and/or CEOs of our portfolio companies come together. It is an amazing opportunity for everyone involved [...] Read more
MBA Mondays: Cap Tables
Fred Wilson – Sep 26, 2011
Cap Tables (short for capitalization tables) are spreadsheets that show how much everyone owns of the company. You can get a stockholder ledger from your lawyer that will list all the stockholders and show how many shares or options they [...] Read more