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Some Thoughts on Mobile Opportunities
Albert Wenger – Nov 5, 2010
This morning I am speaking to a group of women entrepreneurs out here in Westchester about opportunities coming out of mobile. I have written about this before on the USV blog, but here is what I am planning to talk [...] Read more
Broken Voting Machine UX
Albert Wenger – Nov 4, 2010
One more post on voting, but this tome about UX design. The new optical scanners have an awful user experience. Two things really stuck out. First, it was entirely unclear whether to insert one’s ballot face up or face down [...] Read more
US Elections: Democracy 0 – Structural Change 1
Albert Wenger – Nov 3, 2010
The election is over and the results are as expected bad for the Democrats. I worry a bit that we are experiencing first hand the limits of democracy. We have a great many people voting out of frustration with the [...] Read more
Supporting or Enabling?
Albert Wenger – Nov 2, 2010
There is a fine line between supporting and enabling. I find this is true as much at home as in business. When one of our children asks for help with a homework assignment, I tend to provide it to be [...] Read more
Employee Equity: The Option Strike Price
Fred Wilson – Nov 1, 2010
A few weeks back we talked about stock options in some detail. I explained that the strike price of an option is the price per share you will pay when you exercise the option and buy the underlying common stock. [...] Read more
Voting
Albert Wenger – Nov 1, 2010
Tomorrow is a big election as potentially control of both houses is on the line. But why vote? There is something known as the “paradox of voting,” which questions why a rational voter would bother voting at all. The reasoning [...] Read more