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Reality Is Broken: Piano Edition
Albert Wenger – Jan 31, 2011
I have been reading and thoroughly enjoying “Reality is Broken” by Jane McGonigal (love the name too!). One basic premise of book is that games are engaging exactly because they represent a “better” version of reality in which missions are [...] Read more
Egypt, the Internet, and the Second Amendment
Albert Wenger – Jan 28, 2011
We live in a time of amazing transformation. Nowhere has this been more apparent recently than in Tunisia and Egypt where people are fighting against entrenched regimes and for democracy. In both places the Internet has played a critical role [...] Read more
NASA Heavy Lift Strategy Doesn’t Make Sense
Albert Wenger – Jan 27, 2011
And now for something completely different. Like most (all?) geeks, I love the idea of human space travel. I know we have got tons of problems to fix here, but I don’t think that should deter us from pursuing some [...] Read more
Lufthansa Or How Not To Provide Customer Service
Albert Wenger – Jan 24, 2011
Rooting for Larry and the Internet
Albert Wenger – Jan 21, 2011
I am thrilled to see Larry Page take over as CEO from Eric Schmidt. In a post a few months back I had expressed my worry that Google was headed the way of Yahoo under too much “professional management” and [...] Read more
LivingSocial, Groupon and Defensibility
Albert Wenger – Jan 20, 2011
LivingSocial yesterday was selling $20 for $10, which is a good deal for everyone buying it (and remembering to then make use of their Amazon gift card). Not surprisingly, they sold at least 1 million for a total value of [...] Read more
Android Badly Needs a Successful Tablet
Albert Wenger – Jan 19, 2011
If there was any doubt, the iPad is a huge winner for Apple with 7.3 million units shipped in the last quarter. Casual observation from flying a fair bit has made that obvious over the last few months. You can’t [...] Read more
We Need to Refactor Government
Albert Wenger – Jan 18, 2011
Fred posted over the weekend about deficit reduction. What we really need though is not cutting within the existing system, but rather restructuring government for the age of the Internet. We currently seem to be in the habit of piling [...] Read more
The Opportunity Fund
Fred Wilson – Jan 15, 2011
We founded Union Square Ventures in 2003 to invest in the applications layer of the web. Over the last seven years, we have refined that investment focus. We now invest almost exclusively in Internet services that create large networks. Some [...] Read more