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Amee: Building the Network for Environmental and Financial Risk
Albert Wenger – Jun 10, 2013
At USV we look for businesses that have network effects and use the internet to do things that simply weren’t possible before. We are particularly thrilled when we can find opportunities that also have the potential of having a positive [...] Read more
Some Thoughts on NSA’s Prism Program
Albert Wenger – Jun 7, 2013
By now it is no longer a secret that the NSA has been conducting a massive data gathering effort on US citizens. Let me say right up front: doing this in secret and reviewed only in closed door hearings and [...] Read more
Internet and Income Inequality: We Need To Think Ahead
Albert Wenger – Jun 6, 2013
On Twitter this morning I received a link to a Guardian piece titled “In the digital economy, we’ll soon all be working for free – and I refuse” by Suzanne Moore. What caught my attention was not so much the [...] Read more
The Problems with CALEA-II
Albert Wenger – Jun 5, 2013
The FBI is asking for an update to the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) which mandated a backdoor for communications gear. This revised version known as CALEA-II is asking for such a backdoor to be extended to [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Technical Debt
Albert Wenger – Jun 4, 2013
The topic fo today’s Tech Tuesday is one that every startup I have ever seen struggles with: what to do about technical debt. First off, what is technical debt? The Wikipedia page explains it as “the eventual consequences of poor [...] Read more
MBA Mondays: Sales Leads On A Small Budget
Fred Wilson – Jun 3, 2013
So today on MBA Mondays we are going to talk about something useful - Generating sales leads on a small budget. Every startup that wants to sell something runs into this challenge. I asked Russell Sachs, who runs sales for [...] Read more
Turkey
Albert Wenger – Jun 3, 2013
The scale of the protests against government in Turkey is significant with over 200 demonstrations in 67 cities. Social media has played an important role in making the rest of the world aware of the scale of the protests and [...] Read more
Product > Strategy > Business Model
Fred Wilson – Jun 2, 2013
One of the mistakes I see entrepreneurs make is they move to business model before locking down strategy. The way I like to think about this is get the product right first, then lock down the strategy of the business, [...] Read more