Albert Wenger | Union Square Ventures | Page 135 of 170
Sep 30, 2011
The NYT covered a company called cater2.me the other day under the headline “The Middleman is Thriving on the Internet.” Throughout the article the author refers to the company as an example of middlemen, including in the following: While this [...] Read more
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Sep 28, 2011
I am supportive of the #occupywallstreet protest as an exercise of First Amendment rights. I too am frustrated with a financial and economic system that has made the rich richer, has hollowed out the middle class and has ever more [...] Read more
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Sep 27, 2011
Today is one of my favorite days of the year. We are having the Union Square Ventures portfolio summit where for one day founders and/or CEOs of our portfolio companies come together. It is an amazing opportunity for everyone involved [...] Read more
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Sep 26, 2011
Following f8, there has been a new explosion of discussion around Facebook’s voracious data gathering. For instance, Facebook keeps cookies on your machine even when you are logged out which allows them at least in principle to track your visits [...] Read more
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Sep 23, 2011
Mark Birch has a great post today about using LinkedIn correctly when asking for introductions. Very timely as I was planning to write about introductions today and now need to write only a fraction because Mark covers everything else (he [...] Read more
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Sep 21, 2011
Couldn’t resist an attention grabbing headline here after spending yesterday morning with my daughter on the kind of homework that just completely takes the fun out of learning. In geography her class is learning about latitude and longitude. As homework [...] Read more
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Sep 20, 2011
Google’s announcement of the initial availability of Google Wallet was interesting but not because of any immediate impact. Initially, this will be the equivalent of a large field trial as it will be available only on Nexus S phones and [...] Read more
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Sep 19, 2011
While on family vacation in Scotland at the end of August, I read James Gleick’s “The Information.” If you have limited reading time and are looking for something practical or applied this is not for you. But if you have [...] Read more
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Sep 16, 2011
Comments and forums seem like an odd place for spam especially when they don’t permit HTML. What could a spammer gain? The only thing I can think of is possibly a link to their profile. Yet, last week a company [...] Read more