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Tech Tuesday: More Best Practices for Growth (Engineering)
Albert Wenger – Apr 9, 2013
Last Tech Tuesday, I wrote about growing your engineering organization and the week before that about evolving your technology. Today here are three more best practices for successful engineering growth: APIs - I will have a lot more to say [...] Read more
Ziggeo Now Out of Beta
Albert Wenger – Apr 8, 2013
Susan and Oliver’s startup Ziggeo is now out of beta. Today they launched three simple pricing plans which include a free tier. To let everyone try out Ziggeo, I have set up a “screening room” where you can ask me [...] Read more
Facebook Home
Albert Wenger – Apr 5, 2013
Yesterday Facebook announced “Home,” a homescreen takeover application for Android that makes Facebook your phones primary interaction surface. Here are my initial reactions. First, this is a smart move by Facebook as an attempt to counter the threat of unbundling [...] Read more
Bitcoin: The Wild West Years
Albert Wenger – Apr 4, 2013
Anybody following bitcoin will know that the cryptographic currency had a huge run up recently that has brought with it an increase in fraudulent activities, including a DDoS attack on Mt. Gox and an epic theft of $3.5 million worth [...] Read more
New York City Crosswalks: Safety and Bayes
Albert Wenger – Apr 3, 2013
This morning’s NY Times has a couple of interesting stories. The first is that apparently the rate for bribery in NY State and City legislatures is as low as $20K. But the one that really caught my attention was the [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Growing Your Engineering Organization
Albert Wenger – Apr 2, 2013
Last Tech Tuesday I wrote about evolving your technology as you grow. As, if not more important, is how you grow your engineering organization. They after all are the ones who need to make the right choices about the technology! [...] Read more
The Unbundling of Publishing
Albert Wenger – Apr 1, 2013
Tonight I am giving a brief talk at a Publishing Point event organized by Susan and Jenny. Here are some notes that I pulled together in preparation, written up as a blog post. At USV one of our big investment [...] Read more
We Need Bees, Not Monsanto
Albert Wenger – Mar 29, 2013
A while back I had stopped worrying about bee Colony Collapse Disorder because it had been out of the news for a while. From this morning’s New York Times it seems like I was wrong. Apparently if anything the rate [...] Read more
More Power to the States?
Albert Wenger – Mar 28, 2013
I have started reading Antifragile by Nassim Taleb (review coming when I am done with it). As an early example of a system that gets better under stress he mentions city states (presumably as they existed in ancient Greece). At [...] Read more