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Undercover Boss (In Your Startup)
Albert Wenger – Mar 1, 2010
We took a quick look yesterday at the Closing Ceremony for the Winter Olympics, which was painful (Shatner, really?) but as we flipped to another channel, we ran across Undercover Boss on CBS. The premise of the series is simple: [...] Read more
Cloud Computing = Democratization of Applications
Albert Wenger – Feb 26, 2010
The Web brought us the democratization of content. Cloud Computing will do the same for applications. That will be one of my key themes for the Cloud Computing panel this afternoon at the Wharton Business Technology conference (that’s assuming that [...] Read more
Burn Rate as the Canonical Mistake (for Web Startups)
Albert Wenger – Feb 25, 2010
One of the all time great opening lines is from Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina: I am beginning to think that the opposite is true for (web) startups. There seem to be surprisingly many roads to success. But the canonical road to [...] Read more
Defending (Internet) Freedom
Albert Wenger – Feb 24, 2010
I love Italy - for vacations, that is. But the decision by a judge in Milan to convict several Google employees for the posting of a bullying video on Youtube is a serious threat to the potential of the Internet [...] Read more
Unemployment and Structural Change (2)
Albert Wenger – Feb 22, 2010
I have written previously about unemployment and structural change in the economy, arguing that we are facing a particularly bad outlook for employment. The New York Times on Saturday had a good article on this subject that combined some chilling [...] Read more
Some Thoughts on Google Buzz
Albert Wenger – Feb 10, 2010
I got Google Buzz last night in my gmail account and have started to play around with it a bit. Here are some initial thoughts. First off, I agree with Andrew that the integration of Buzz with Gmail will turn [...] Read more
Email Killer Feature: Reply Processing
Albert Wenger – Feb 9, 2010
If you needed yet another reason to switch from operating your own MTA for transactional email to using a service provider, SendGrid recently introduced a killer feature: reply processing. No more need to send emails from “no-reply@thatsoundsrude.com." Instead, let people [...] Read more
Twilio
Albert Wenger – Feb 8, 2010
One of the great promises of cloud computing is to make things that were previously difficult easy. Complexity is hidden and a service can be accessed through a simple API and purchased with a credit card. When that can be [...] Read more
The EBook Wars
Albert Wenger – Feb 8, 2010
I was away last week and so am late to the party when it comes to commenting on the fight between Amazon and book publishers. Here are a couple of observations. First, I was surprised it took so long for [...] Read more