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Homeschool Wednesday: Don’t Know Much About Africa
Albert Wenger – Feb 12, 2014
In March we will be going to Africa for a safari. We are all really excited about it. And of course as part of homeschooling we have been spending time preparing for the trip and learning about the countries we [...] Read more
NSA Reform: Call Your Representative Today
Albert Wenger – Feb 11, 2014
Sorry, no Tech Tuesday today – instead a brief post about need for more dramatic NSA reform than what has been proposed so far. It is already 4:30pm but I still suggest that you call your representative or senator in [...] Read more
Online Pitch Practice For Women Entrepreneurs
Albert Wenger – Feb 10, 2014
Susan and I are trying something new: we are offering an online pitch practice aimed at women entrepreneurs. Susan came up with this idea based on working hard to hone her own pitch for Ziggeo (which is also the platform [...] Read more
Amazon Web Services as Metaphor
Andy Weissman – Feb 10, 2014
Amazon Web Services are defined as "a set of services that together form a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive computing platform in the cloud.” This definition belies just how profound those sets of services actually are. I remember back in 2008 [...] Read more
Inflation vs Deflation
Albert Wenger – Feb 6, 2014
I have written a fair bit about inflation in the past, starting with a post about inflation versus deflation during the financial crises in 2008, which I then followed with three posts in 2009. We are now finding ourselves in [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: Conscious Parenting
Albert Wenger – Feb 5, 2014
One crucial impact of homeschooling is that you spend way more time with your children (even when you use quite a few tutors as we do). This will test your relationship with your children in new and unexpected ways and [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Amortization
Albert Wenger – Feb 4, 2014
The last few Tech Tuesdays have all been about computational complexity. One of the problems that we looked at a couple of times was finding a match (eg a word on a page). And for good reason as matching is [...] Read more
Stop TPP Fast Track (At Least Modify It)
Albert Wenger – Feb 3, 2014
If you are a long time reader of Continuations, you will know that I wrote repeatedly about ACTA, the attempt to strengthen global intellectual property rights that was soundly defeated by the European Parliament. At the time I mentioned that [...] Read more
Going Public: Rational Expectations and Bad Equilibria
Albert Wenger – Jan 31, 2014
Earlier this week I was talking to a group of investment bankers about the process of going public. In particular I was drilling in on the much vaunted need for revenue visibility as a basis for giving quarterly guidance. Every [...] Read more