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Blog Posts by Albert Wenger

Oct 10, 2012

Today’s post is over at USV where we are looking for design talent to help us update our identity. Funnily there is a question about our logo on Quora. We are excited to be leveraging Behance’s design community for this Read more.

Oct 9, 2012

If you have been a faithful reader of Tech Tuesday, you may be asking yourself just how many more posts on Data Structures could possibly be coming up as this is now the sixth such post (including the introduction). The Read more.

Oct 8, 2012

Salman Khan has a blog post on CNN where he suggests that credentialing can and should be separated from learning. He makes a compelling argument for why this would be desirable: This unbundling of credentialing is also one of the Read more.

Oct 4, 2012

This is the first entry in my Scylla and Charybdis Series of blog posts. In case you missed the introduction, the idea is that startups are hard because you can always err both by doing too little of something but Read more.

Oct 3, 2012

Today one of our portfolio companies is holding their internal management training in our offices. They have asked me to talk a little bit about my own experience with the challenge of going from being an individual contributor to being Read more.

Oct 2, 2012

This is the fifth post on Data Structures as part of my long Tech Tuesday series on programming. And today we finally make it to a structure known as an object. There is a whole literature on so-called object-oriented Read more.

Oct 1, 2012

A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post titled “Hacking Textbooks - We Need It” where I pointed out that college textbooks are a $7B annual market in the US alone. I was therefore thrilled to see that Read more.

Sep 28, 2012

Since I first wrote about the Benefit Corporation several great things have happened, including New York State passing legislation and Etsy becoming a certified B Corp. Since most venture-backed companies are incorporated in Delaware, it would be terrific to Read more.

Sep 26, 2012

Yesterday we had our portfolio company summit with the CEOs of most of our active investments in our office. It is always a really fun day because there are great discussions about a far-ranging set of topics from hiring Read more.