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Forevery App: (Re)Discover Your Photos
Albert Wenger – Dec 9, 2015
If you are like me and use your phone as your only camera, then eventually you wind up with thousands of pictures in your camera roll. That often means that when you want to show off a specific picture to [...] Read more
Ask Me Anything: Questions 3 & 4
Albert Wenger – Dec 6, 2015
For your Sunday viewing pleasure, here are the next two questions and answers in my Ask Me Anything series. Question 3 is about an area of physics – dark matter and energy – that I don’t know anything about: And [...] Read more
The Fog of Startups (And Why It Doesn’t Need to Be That Way)
Albert Wenger – Dec 3, 2015
Have you ever been in a super stressful situation that afterwards, when things had calmed down, possibly weeks or months later felt like it was part of a dream or a movie? Well startups can be a lot like that [...] Read more
SimScale
Albert Wenger – Dec 2, 2015
We are excited to announce our investment in Munich-based SimScale. SimScale makes complex engineering simulations, such as mechanical stress and fluid flows, available to anyone in the world with a web browser. These kinds of simulations were pioneered in the [...] Read more
SimScale
Albert Wenger – Dec 2, 2015
One of the amazing things that’s happening in the world is that technologies that once were expensive and available only to large companies can now be used by individuals. For instance, we all carry supercomputers in our pockets in the [...] Read more
Ask Me Anything: Questions 1 & 2
Albert Wenger – Nov 29, 2015
I recently started a new feature where you can ask me anything by recording a video. Turns out that I got two closely related questions about education and skills for a future in which machines can do more and more. [...] Read more
Thanksgiving: Entrepreneurs
Albert Wenger – Nov 26, 2015
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday: time with family and food is great as is having a reminder to be thankful. Today I want to say how thankful I am for entrepreneurs. For the people who are crazy enough to believe [...] Read more
Experiment On Continuations: Video Ask Me Anything
Albert Wenger – Nov 24, 2015
I love answering questions. On long car rides nothing makes me happier than when our kids ask me something difficult to explain. Makes the drive go by much more quickly. I blame this habit on my Dad who used to [...] Read more
Quizlet
Fred Wilson – Nov 23, 2015
There are some investments that take years to make. They are often our best investments. Quizlet took something like five years to go from a company we got interested in to a USV investment. In March 2009, we hosted an [...] Read more