By Albert Wenger—Aug 9, 2013

Short post because I am away with the family, but I can’t help myself given the shutdowns of Lavabit and Silent Mail. This is what I mean when I say we are headed for a spy-versus-spy society between citizens and government. The way forward is not for citizens to embrace these crypto services and […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Albert Wenger—Aug 8, 2013

It’s been a while since I have written a post in my Scylla and Charybdis series. As a quick refresher, the basic premise of the series is that startups are hard because on pretty much anything you can do too much or too little and the path to success thus requires navigating a narrow straight […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Albert Wenger—Aug 6, 2013

I have written about prioritization previously on Tech Tuesday, introducing a prioritization heuristic and emphasizing the importance of a healthy mix of different projects. Today I want to add some point on how to think about competition in the context of prioritization. This is particularly […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Aug 5, 2013

I finally picked up the Isaacson book on Steve Jobs. Figured enough time has passed to give the proper amount of perspective. It must be a big book because I've spent the past two weekends on it and I am only 50% through according to the Kindle app. As an aside, I am reading it […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Albert Wenger—Aug 5, 2013

I love going to the movies and I love science fiction. This summer is bringing a bumper crop of scifi movies (broadly defined). One of the fun aspects for me of going to see a movie is that I will get to see trailers for upcoming movies. Some people seem to dread this part as […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Aug 1, 2013

For the past few years, I've been using a third party service called Pandamian to power a table of contents for MBA Mondays. They've been awesome to work with but the honest truth is I would prefer to have this thing run natively on AVC and point to MBA Mondays posts on AVC. What I […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)