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Modeling (in Excel)
Albert Wenger – Nov 11, 2010
I am going to spend the better part of today building some models in Excel. Much as I love Google Docs, for any serious model I still go back to Excel without regrets. It is fast and versatile and I [...] Read more
Looking for Daily/Frequent Sources
Albert Wenger – Nov 10, 2010
My routine online reading has narrowed somewhat precipitously to Tumblr, Techmeme, Hacker News and HuffPo. Would love to find out what folks are reading daily or at least frequently (minimum once a week) online across categories: tech, politics, culture, art, [...] Read more
Asking For It
Albert Wenger – Nov 9, 2010
I am often surprised by how many people know what they want and yet fail to ask for it at the crucial moment (or for that matter altogether). This occurs in many different contexts. Sales people who can’t close because [...] Read more
Some Thoughts on Mobile Opportunities
Albert Wenger – Nov 5, 2010
This morning I am speaking to a group of women entrepreneurs out here in Westchester about opportunities coming out of mobile. I have written about this before on the USV blog, but here is what I am planning to talk [...] Read more
Broken Voting Machine UX
Albert Wenger – Nov 4, 2010
One more post on voting, but this tome about UX design. The new optical scanners have an awful user experience. Two things really stuck out. First, it was entirely unclear whether to insert one’s ballot face up or face down [...] Read more
US Elections: Democracy 0 – Structural Change 1
Albert Wenger – Nov 3, 2010
The election is over and the results are as expected bad for the Democrats. I worry a bit that we are experiencing first hand the limits of democracy. We have a great many people voting out of frustration with the [...] Read more
Supporting or Enabling?
Albert Wenger – Nov 2, 2010
There is a fine line between supporting and enabling. I find this is true as much at home as in business. When one of our children asks for help with a homework assignment, I tend to provide it to be [...] Read more
Voting
Albert Wenger – Nov 1, 2010
Tomorrow is a big election as potentially control of both houses is on the line. But why vote? There is something known as the “paradox of voting,” which questions why a rational voter would bother voting at all. The reasoning [...] Read more
A World (Online) Without Money
Albert Wenger – Oct 29, 2010
This is part of my series of posts thinking about a coming age of abundance. The main thrust of my arguments will be that abundance will be a feature of the physical world, but I would be the first to [...] Read more