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Concentric Circles of Angel Investors
Albert Wenger – Jun 25, 2010
First time entrepreneurs who are just getting going frequently ask me about how to find angel investors. I usually tell them about my theory of “concentric circles” of angel investors. The gist of my theory is that each time you [...] Read more
Big Victory for Google and UGC in General
Albert Wenger – Jun 24, 2010
Yesterday, a judge granted YouTube’s Motion for Summary Judgment in the Viacom v. YouTube litigation. This is a major victory for all user generated content (UGC) companies because it strongly affirms the DMCA safe harbor. Congrats to David Drummond and [...] Read more
UI/UX: Form Laziness Nuisances
Albert Wenger – Jun 23, 2010
I complained about one pet peeve on Monday (stock certificates for startups) and can’t help myself with another one today: programs that complain about user inputs that are easily fixable. Yesterday I copied a bunch of email addresses from Jobscore [...] Read more
Payment Innovation and Net Neutrality
Albert Wenger – Jun 22, 2010
One of the key arguments for net neutrality is that it fosters independent and rapid innovation at both the transport and application layers. It is instructive to look at a different type of network to see what happens to innovation [...] Read more
Can We Please Get Rid of Stock Certificates For Startups?
Albert Wenger – Jun 21, 2010
It is 2010 and while we don’t have jetpacks, it doesn’t seem too much to ask to not have to deal with paper stock certificates. Yet most early stage deals that I see still wind up sending out physical paper [...] Read more
A Comment on Comments
Albert Wenger – Jun 17, 2010
Yesterday was a fertile day for comments on comments: John Gruber, Bijan Sabet and then Marco Arment all provided interesting food for thought. For starters, I firmly believe that what someone chooses to do on their own blog is and [...] Read more
Twilio Announces OpenVBX
Albert Wenger – Jun 15, 2010
The amazing team at our portfolio company Twilio has done it again: taken something that was previously complicated and made it super simple. This time they set their sights on business telephone systems (formerly known as PBXs, which – if [...] Read more
Attention: Attention
Albert Wenger – Jun 14, 2010
There are certain topics that periodically rear their heads, such as privacy. The one that is on my mind this morning is attention. I don’t know whether there really is a deep attention crisis, but my own anecdotal evidence suggests [...] Read more
Motivating Engineers
Albert Wenger – Jun 9, 2010
I am a huge fan of Dan Ariely’s writing because I believe it makes behavioral economics relevant to every day business decision making. I have just finished the first two chapters of his new book “The Upside of Irrationality” and [...] Read more