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Assessment of Trump Presidency?
Albert Wenger – Jul 10, 2017
We are rapidly approaching the first half year of Trump’s Presidency. I am genuinely curious whether there is anyone attempting a cogent defense of the record so far. If you have read something you think qualifies, please link to it [...] Read more
Jurisdictional Competition
Fred Wilson – Jul 9, 2017
The economist Paul Romer introduced me to the idea of jurisdictional competition about ten years ago and I've been fascinated with it since. His TED Talk about charter cities from 2009 is a good primer on the concept. The basic [...] Read more
Individual Courage and Lasting Change in Tech
Albert Wenger – Jul 7, 2017
The women who have come forward in tech in the last few weeks, including Susan Fowler, Niniane Wang and Sarah Kunst have shown great courage. Their courage will be the catalyst for lasting change, provided all of us turn this [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Variance
Albert Wenger – Jul 5, 2017
In last week’s Uncertainty Wednesday, I introduced the expected value EV of a random variable X. We saw that EV(X) is not a measure of uncertainty. The hypothetical investments I had described all had the same expected value of 0. [...] Read more
Happy 4th of July: Celebrating Truths
Albert Wenger – Jul 4, 2017
I am spending this 4th of July in Germany, having visited my parents and friends from growing-up near Nuremberg for the last few days. It is late here now and I am seeing all the Happy 4th wishes from the [...] Read more
ChangeX: Impact As A Service
Albert Wenger – Jun 30, 2017
Susan and I have been longtime supporters of the wonderful ChangeX platform: ChangeX helps spread social innovation across communities. This week ChangeX introduced a new model for donors, which they are calling Impact as a Service (IaaS). This is a [...] Read more
Bearing Witness
Fred Wilson – Jun 28, 2017
Yesterday afternoon I spent a couple hours sitting on the stage at the high school graduation ceremony for the Academy For Software Engineering . This evening I will spend another couple hours sitting on the stage at the high school [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Expected Value
Albert Wenger – Jun 28, 2017
In today’s Uncertainty Wednesday we start to explore the properties of random variables. The first one we will look at is the so-called “expected value” or EV for short. The EV is simply the probability weighted average of a random [...] Read more
Putting Harassment On The Table Vs Under The Table
Fred Wilson – Jun 27, 2017
A lot has been written in the last week about the way the tech sector treats sexual harassment and a lot of suggestions have been made. I am particularly enthusiastic about what our fomer USV colleague Brittany Laughlin suggests , which [...] Read more