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Google Glass Update
Albert Wenger – Jun 27, 2013
I wrote before that I am quite bullish on certain professional and niche personal applications of Google Glass but find the adoption strategy puzzling. Having just tried Glass for the first time I feel quite comfortable with both of these [...] Read more
Contracts: Defining Future Negotiations
Albert Wenger – Jun 26, 2013
Contracts are necessary to doing business but surprisingly many people miss a central point about them: they define the starting point for future negotiations. Where you actually wind up as an outcome depends on both the contract and external factors [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: A Prioritization Heuristic
Albert Wenger – Jun 25, 2013
Startups are heavily resource constrained and so prioritization of what to work on becomes paramount. In today’s Tech Tuesday I want to share an important heuristic that many companies can benefit from. The point of departure for this the well [...] Read more
Firebase
Albert Wenger – Jun 20, 2013
Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." I have always had mixed feelings about this quote because as an engineer my reaction to something really advanced like self driving cars is to want [...] Read more
So You Wanna Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star
Andy Weissman – Jun 20, 2013
And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations They're quite aware of what they're goin' through The acquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo! is now complete, which has set off [...] Read more
What Is Strategy?
Fred Wilson – Jun 17, 2013
My post on Product>Strategy>Business Model got a lot of comments and other reactions out there on the social web and from that I realized that many confuse strategy and tactics. And so I thought I would attempt to define strategy [...] Read more
In Praise of Internet Exceptionalism
Albert Wenger – Jun 13, 2013
I have been meaning to write about “internet exceptionalism” since I read a post titled “It Always Comes Down to Math” but various political and economic events intervened. The key quote summarizing the post is “but at the end of [...] Read more
Surveillance: Beware the Turkey Argument on Terrorism
Albert Wenger – Jun 12, 2013
I think it is super important in the current debate about government surveillance to separate two different arguments. First, I have stated and continue to believe that large scale secret programs without supervision and without checks and balances are unacceptable [...] Read more
Auxmoney
John Buttrick – Jun 11, 2013
Today we are delighted to announce that we have made an investment in Auxmoney, an online credit marketplace in Germany. The CEO, Raffael Johnen was in London last week and appeared on a LeWeb panel with the CEOs of two [...] Read more