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Inequality, The Movie
Albert Wenger – Nov 16, 2012
I am still working on my third post about employment. As part of that I have been reading up on the rise of inequality in the US and its effects on society. In that process I came across this interesting [...] Read more
Car Talk Tonight
Albert Wenger – Nov 15, 2012
Ok, so this is not really about the NPR show, although Click and Clack did speak at my MIT graduation. Instead I am talking tonight at a BMW event which is about introducing their own venture activities as well as [...] Read more
Petraeus Lessons
Albert Wenger – Nov 14, 2012
Let’s get the unimportant things out of the way right away. Several people had affairs. That to me has zero news value. And for all the “Why do powerful men cheat more?” headline writers, I suggest taking my Bayesian probability [...] Read more
Competition, It’s a Bitch
Andy Weissman – Nov 14, 2012
Yesterday it was reported in the Chosun Ilbo, South Korea’s most popular newspaper, that Samsung has raised the price of processors sold to Apple by 20 per cent. It is well known that Apple has been making strides to reduce [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Algorithms (Implementations)
Albert Wenger – Nov 13, 2012
Last week in Tech Tuesday, we continued our introduction to algorithms by looking at a first implementation. As a reminder we are trying to find out whether a sequence of integers contains a number that is repeated four times in [...] Read more
MBA Mondays: Next Topics
Fred Wilson – Nov 12, 2012
Back at the end of April I wrote a post asking for ideas for the next few topics for MBA Mondays. Out of that came the series on People which I followed with a series on Sustainability. It's time for [...] Read more
Information Technology and Hybrid Organizations (Thesis)
Albert Wenger – Nov 12, 2012
This is the second post in my little project of self publishing my PhD Thesis. Last week I introduced an econometric analysis of the impact of Information Technology (IT) firm size. This time it is a more theoretical paper that [...] Read more
Peer Science and Social Media
Albert Wenger – Nov 9, 2012
One accusation that has been leveled at social media and those who invest in it is that it won’t help us solve the tough problems because those require science (Steve Blank provides one example of this view and at least [...] Read more
Software is Eating Apple
Albert Wenger – Nov 8, 2012
It’s only two months ago that I posted that these are Apple’s glory years and that it is likely too soon to bet against Apple’s stock. As it turns out I was wrong. When I wrote, the stock was at [...] Read more