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Minimizing Jet Lag (for Trips to Europe)
Albert Wenger – Jan 25, 2010
With family (parents) in Germany, two investments in London, and conferences (eg DLD) and vacations, I wind up flying to Europe at least half a dozen times a year. Here is the system I have come up with for minimizing [...] Read more
An Ongoing Lack of Imagination in Pricing (of Digital Content)
Albert Wenger – Jan 21, 2010
Yesterday brought two announcements and one rumor that all relate to the pricing of digital content: the New York Times announced that it plans to add a paywall in 2011, Amazon announced that it will offer authors a 70% royalty [...] Read more
Some Real Estate Tips for Startups
Albert Wenger – Jan 20, 2010
Now that the cost of servers and bandwidth has plummeted, office space tends to be the biggest expense following payroll for a lot of web startups. Here are some quick tips on what to do. You might also want to [...] Read more
Nexus One Needs Simpler Default UX
Albert Wenger – Jan 19, 2010
I have been carrying around a Nexus One for a couple of weeks (in addition to my somewhat nervous feeling Blackberry). There is a ton to like about the Nexus. It works fantastically well with all of Google’s services. The [...] Read more
Lean Startup and Network Effects (Patience, My Young Padawan)
Albert Wenger – Jan 15, 2010
I am a huge fan of the Lean Startup philosophy (and Eric Ries / Steve Blank who have done so much to evangelize it). Recently, i have been thinking a lot about the relationship between this approach and network effects. [...] Read more
Google and China (Wishing for more US Credibility)
Albert Wenger – Jan 13, 2010
I have worried on and off on this blog about the growing reach of Google. But yesterday I was thrilled to see Google take a determined stance on the issue of censorship and – by implication human rights – in [...] Read more
Software Patents Need To Go
Albert Wenger – Jan 12, 2010
My partner Brad put up a great post on the USV blog yesterday, arguing for an independent invention defense against software patents. A while back, I had proposed an alternative, a change in how litigation works. In that post, I [...] Read more
Fighting Over The Digital Pie
Albert Wenger – Jan 11, 2010
The demand for books, music, news, TV, phone calls is constrained by the time that people have. In a mature market (e.g., the US) that time is growing at best at the rate of population growth (low single digits), but [...] Read more
Promoting Scratch! (Imagine-Program-Share)
Albert Wenger – Jan 8, 2010
I am going to my kids’ school this morning to meet with the head of the computer lab, the principal and the district’s main computer person to talk about Scratch (that is assuming it stops snowing!). The school is beginning [...] Read more