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Benefit Corporation Update
Albert Wenger – Sep 28, 2012
Since I first wrote about the Benefit Corporation several great things have happened, including New York State passing legislation and Etsy becoming a certified B Corp. Since most venture backed companies are incorporated in Delaware, it would be terrific to [...] Read more
Scylla and Charybdis: Why Startups are Hard
Albert Wenger – Sep 26, 2012
Yesterday we had our portfolio company summit with the CEOs of most of our active investments in our office. It is always a really fun day because there are great discussions about a far ranging set of topics from hiring [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Data Structures (JSON)
Albert Wenger – Sep 25, 2012
In today’s Tech Tuesday we are continuing our romp through Data Structures as part of the ongoing series on programming by looking at JSON. Now technically JSON, which stands for JavaScript Object Notation, is not a data structure but a [...] Read more
MBA Mondays From The Archive: Analyzing Financial Statements
Fred Wilson – Sep 24, 2012
My favorite course in business school was Financial Statement Analysis. It was like taking a course in investigative journalism or learning how to be a police detective. The professor explained that if you look hard enough, you can learn most [...] Read more
Public Markets Asset Allocation
Albert Wenger – Sep 24, 2012
Over the years I have tried a number of different financial advisors but have never been particularly happy. In particular, I have found that most of them seemed to ignore long term trends that I believe in and seemed to [...] Read more
Ask Patents: Peer Progressive Agenda At Work
Albert Wenger – Sep 21, 2012
Earlier this week I blogged about Steven Johnson’s wonderful new book Future Perfect, which lays out the Peer Progressive agenda. I am therefore particularly excited about yesterday’s launch of AskPatents, a collaboration between the USPTO and our portfolio company StackExchange. [...] Read more
The Bear Case on Apple
Albert Wenger – Sep 20, 2012
It’s hard to be bearish on a company that has had a run as amazing as Apple and a hugely successful launch of a new product. But there are two reasons that lead me to question where things will go [...] Read more
Future Perfect: I Am A Peer Progressive
Albert Wenger – Sep 19, 2012
The very first post on Continuations explained that I think of myself as a technology optimist. Thanks to Steven Johnson’s new book Future Perfect I can now proudly add a second label to that: peer progressive. In Future Perfect, Steven [...] Read more
MBA Mondays From The Archives: Cash Flow
Fred Wilson – Sep 17, 2012
Continuing this month's practice of pulling an accounting related blog post from the archives, this week we feature the post on Cash Flow. The Income Statement and Balance Sheet get more attention, but there is nothing more important in keeping [...] Read more