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The Bubble Question
Fred Wilson – Mar 13, 2014
Everywhere I go, everywhere I speak, I get asked this question. Are we in a bubble? I've been getting asked that question for at least four years now. It's hard to sustain a bubble for four years. But we are [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Taking a Break
Albert Wenger – Mar 11, 2014
With last week’s P=NP? Tech Tuesday will take an indefinite break. First, we are heading to Africa for the rest of March (longest vacation in 20+ years). Second, when we come back I will be using Continuations to significantly elaborate [...] Read more
Decentralizing Identity
Albert Wenger – Mar 10, 2014
If you ask someone who they are on the Internet, they will likely give you an email address or point to their profile on Twitter, Facebook, Google, or LinkedIn. Some people might instead reference a profile on a more industry [...] Read more
We Live in the Cyberpunk Future: More to Come
Albert Wenger – Mar 7, 2014
I still remember how much I loved reading cyberpunk. During yesterday’s Satoshi story development I was struck by how much of the future envisioned in these stories has become a reality. Having a mysterious creator of a system of global [...] Read more
Linking Charges Against Barrett Brown Dropped
Albert Wenger – Mar 6, 2014
Brief post today with an update on an important case that I wrote about last year: the federal prosecution of Barrett Brown. As I wrote back then, linking is the essential building block of the web. Criminally prosecuting someone for [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: Permission-less Innovation
Albert Wenger – Mar 5, 2014
This will be the last Homeschool Wednesday post for quite some time. Not just because we will be going away on a trip to Africa but when we come back I will switch Continuations around a bit. I will use [...] Read more
The Pro-Rata Participation Right
Fred Wilson – Mar 4, 2014
I've touched on this subject before. It is one the "three things you must have in a venture investment". The "pro-rata right" is the right to continue to participate in future rounds so that you can maintain your ownership. Let's [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: P = NP?
Albert Wenger – Mar 4, 2014
Last Tech Tuesday, we looked at complexity classes which group problems by their intrinsic difficult. There we encountered one of the great unsolved questions of Computer Science. Is P = NP? The class P is easy to define. It is [...] Read more
Healthcare: Commerce Before Marketplace?
Albert Wenger – Mar 3, 2014
I am generally not a big fan of strategies that involve pursuing business A now in order to pursue B in the future. I tend to believe that you should go for B right away. For example, if you are [...] Read more