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Some Notes from the Basic Income Congress
Albert Wenger – Mar 2, 2015
This weekend I attended parts of the North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress (agenda and speakers). What follows are some observations. Please take these with a grain of salt as I only attended some sessions Friday evening and Saturday morning. [...] Read more
Keeping the Internet Open
Nick Grossman – Feb 26, 2015
Today the FCC is expected to approve its latest open internet rules, concluding the latest (but certainly not last) round in this now decade-long fight. We believe -- along with many others -- that this set of rules will help [...] Read more
FCC Votes to Keep Internet Access Open for Innovation
Albert Wenger – Feb 26, 2015
The FCC just ruled to ban fast lanes for internet access. Consumers have already paid with their bills for bandwidth and they understood that cable companies were trying to double dip by also charging content originators for the same bandwidth. [...] Read more
How Much is Enough by Robert and Edward Skidelsky (Book Review)
Albert Wenger – Feb 25, 2015
Over vacation I read “How Much is Enough?” by Robert and Edward Skidelsky. I highly recommend the book as it goes after a central question that we should all be asking both individually and collectively. The book starts with an [...] Read more
Beware the Post Money Trap
Albert Wenger – Feb 24, 2015
In the current valuation environment many entrepreneurs seem to believe that only two numbers matter in a financing: the amount of the raise and the dilution. This leads them to buy into the idea that more money for the same [...] Read more
Futures of text
Jonathan Libov – Feb 22, 2015
When the weather is bad I take a bus to work. I’m forever grateful to the person at the bus stop who informed me that you can text New York’s MTA service to find out exactly where the bus is [...] Read more
The Crypto Wars Will Have No Winners
Albert Wenger – Feb 20, 2015
Keeping this short because I am on family vacation but there have been two stories this past week that we should all take note off. First, there was the revelation that the NSA had installed spying software deeply in the [...] Read more
Can Mobile Banking Improve The Lives Of The Poor?
Fred Wilson – Feb 15, 2015
The Chaos Theory Of Startups
Andy Weissman – Feb 13, 2015
I was flying from NY to SF the other day and at one point the gentleman I was sitting next to asked me if I was flying towards or away from home. I told him NYC was my home and [...] Read more