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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
WWDC Keynote and iPhone 4
Albert Wenger – Jun 8, 2010
I was really surprised that Steve Jobs did not announce more cloud capabilities for Apple during his WWDC keynote. It had been rumored that MobileMe might become free and Apple has been investing heavily in data centers. I believe that [...] Read more
More On the Carried Interest Taxation Debate
Albert Wenger – Jun 7, 2010
Last week I wrote briefly about my position in the carried interest taxation debate. Since then the debate has gotten a bit more heated with opposing posts by Chris Dixon and James Robinson. Chris argued that this is a matter [...] Read more
Back to the City
Albert Wenger – Jun 4, 2010
We have been living in the burbs since shortly after our third child was born, which makes it easy to keep track. Shockingly we are rapidly approaching a decade there! We are fortunate to have a (near) perfect setup – [...] Read more
Five (Not So) Easy Pieces of Legislation to Help Internet Startups
Albert Wenger – Jun 3, 2010
A few times over the last couple of months I have been asked what government could do to help startups. I believe there are five different areas that could really make a difference. The first two are specific to the [...] Read more
The Carried Interest Taxation Debate
Albert Wenger – Jun 2, 2010
My partner Fred has come out in support of taxing carried interest as income instead of capital gains. I agree with Fred’s position because I do not believe that this change will result in less investment in startups.Taxes generally cause [...] Read more