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Our Common Humanity: We Still Have a Lot to Build on the Internet
Albert Wenger – Aug 21, 2014
There have been a number of tweets in my timeline roughly saying: “Ferguson, Gaza, Syria, Ukraine — what is going on with the world?” I don’t know that these can all be reduced to a single underlying reason although the [...] Read more
Buzzfeed, Native Ads and Crowdfunding (Beacon Reader et al)
Albert Wenger – Aug 13, 2014
I will be the first to admit that I am a sucker for a good listicle. That’s probably a result of being overly prone to making lists myself. I am also not offended by native advertising per se. After all [...] Read more
Experience
Andy Weissman – Aug 13, 2014
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung - Paul Westerberg I was in a board meeting the other day at a company we have been investors in [...] Read more
Organizing Knowledge Around Basic Concepts
Albert Wenger – Aug 11, 2014
This summer I have been blogging less. That’s largely because I have been reading more and also been spending more time thinking about some of my favorite topics. All of this has me more convinced than ever that we need [...] Read more
The sweetest pitbull
Nick Grossman – Aug 10, 2014
The point of this story is that it shows me how broken the medical system is. Even in the best case, there is such a lack of communication, coordination and information sharing. Data is everywhere and nowhere. Decisions are slower [...] Read more
Figure 1
Andy Weissman – Aug 6, 2014
Social applications leverage the network structure of the Internet to connect people, places, and media. Over the last decade, we’ve seen the origination and maturation of these services, from Facebook to Twitter to Reddit to Tumblr to many more. At [...] Read more
Foursquare: Personalized Recommendations Unleashed
Albert Wenger – Aug 6, 2014
Today’s release of the latest version of Foursquare has me super excited. It puts together all of the data and capabilities the team there has built over the last five years to provide the best local recommendations: based on lots [...] Read more
It is OK to Worry about Work (& Doesn’t Make you a Luddite or Socialist)
Albert Wenger – Aug 4, 2014
In venture capital we come across startups all the time that are building something that has been tried in the past and failed. It would be very easy to dismiss these opportunities based on a naive “pattern matching” approach to [...] Read more