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The Fight of Our Lifetime: Past against Future
Albert Wenger – Jan 17, 2017
Many of the people in power or currently grabbing for it are trying to maintain the recent past or even go back further. This is the fight of our lifetime. The Past against the Future. It is NOT: left against [...] Read more
Shippo and the Power of Abstraction: Introducing USPS ePostage
Albert Wenger – Jan 12, 2017
Our portfolio company Shippo today announced that it is now providing all customers with access to the United States Postal Service ePostage program. Shippo is the first company to have received such a license from the USPS since 1999. But [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Coin Flipping (Example)
Albert Wenger – Jan 11, 2017
I was going to start formalizing the concepts from Uncertainty Wednesday but I got a reader suggestion to do this in the context of a coin flipping example. This is what pretty much every introductory text uses because, well, coin [...] Read more
Digital Currency for Virtual Worlds
Jacqueline Garavente – Jan 9, 2017
In Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel, Snow Crash, we were introduced to the concept of a Metaverse, the 3d mixed reality heir to the Internet marked by a convergence of the physical and virtual worlds. Technologists have been trying to bring [...] Read more
Choosing a New Laptop
Albert Wenger – Jan 9, 2017
Seems that roughly every 4 years I consider which laptop to buy and use. In 2008 I switched from a Panasonic CF-W2 to a Macbook Air. At the time I was on my second Panasonic and I had been using [...] Read more
Blockstack Funding
Albert Wenger – Jan 6, 2017
We are excited to announce follow-on funding in our portfolio company Blockstack. Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Zoltar Example (Part 4)
Albert Wenger – Jan 4, 2017
And we are back! Sorry for the, ahem, uncertainty about when Uncertainty Wednesday would appear. I decided to work less this year on vacation and that included not blogging. Today we will wrap up the Zoltar Example. In Part 3, [...] Read more
Looking for a Research Assistant
Albert Wenger – Jan 3, 2017
For 2017 I made two New Year’s resolutions. The first is to get into better shape (yes, like just about everyone else judging from the crowd at the gym today). The second is to finish my book World After Capital. [...] Read more
2017
Albert Wenger – Jan 2, 2017
Having been fortunate to take two weeks off on a family vacation and stayed away from most news, I feel ready to tackle 2017. Going into this new year I am reminding myself of two principles that apply equally well [...] Read more