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Angel Investing
Albert Wenger – Feb 28, 2014
Later this morning I am participating in a panel called “Angel Investing in Action” at the 2014 Pipeline Fellowship Conference here in NY. The goal of the Pipeline Fellowship is to have more women angel investors (currently only about 1 [...] Read more
When did America become too afraid to explore a frontier?
Brad Burnham – Feb 27, 2014
America's idea of itself is inextricably tied to the opening of the American West. In the 19th century America embraced the entrepreneurs, and rugged individuals who sought to reinvent themselves by going west. Joe Manchin seems to have forgotten who [...] Read more
Jury Duty (Follow Up)
Albert Wenger – Feb 27, 2014
I posted yesterday in Homeschool Wednesday about my first time at jury duty. Here is a quick follow up. It turns out I wasn’t chosen for either of the two trials that were under consideration and surprisingly wasn’t asked to [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: Jury Duty
Albert Wenger – Feb 26, 2014
I became a US citizen in the mid 2000s (I have forgotten the exact year) and recently got called for the first time for jury duty. I am very excited about this as it is both a central part of [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Complexity Classes
Albert Wenger – Feb 25, 2014
The last few weeks in Tech Tuesday we have looked at various aspects of computational complexity. So far whenever we have looked at a sample problem, such as finding words on a web page, we have studied the characteristics of [...] Read more
Facebook Massively Overpaid for WhatsApp
Albert Wenger – Feb 24, 2014
A couple of days have passed since the news of the monster acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook broke. More people have written about it already than I can possibly link to so I won’t even try. My immediate reaction just [...] Read more
A VC: Sidecar
Fred Wilson – Feb 19, 2014
Announcing the investment in Sidecar that USV made last summer Read more
Computers and Deflation
Albert Wenger – Feb 19, 2014
I posted a few days ago revisiting the inflation versus deflation argument. I provided a very brief comment there on Then yesterday Marc Andreessen asked on Twitter about the arguments linking computers to deflation. I am sure others have data [...] Read more
Early Access to Ziggeo API (Closed Beta)
Albert Wenger – Feb 13, 2014
If a picture is a thousand words, then a video is a thousand pictures. Our brains seem built for extracting a huge amount of information from the shortest clips (and even animated gifs). Prior to smartphones capturing video was sort [...] Read more