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Power to the People
Albert Wenger – Sep 22, 2008
We encourage our portfolio companies to make sure they take time out from the operational demands of their business to think about the bigger strategic picture. We do the same for USV and a couple of weeks ago took a day [...] Read more
10gen
Albert Wenger – Jul 20, 2008
My love for computers and software started as a teenager growing up in Germany. I fondly remember my Apple II which followed my TI 59. I early on discovered that I could earn money with my programming skills and wound [...] Read more
Call for Topics
Albert Wenger – Jun 17, 2008
Charlie O'Donnell and I will be moderating a three hour startup workshop at NYC Web 2.0 Expo in September. There is a lot we could talk about from getting started to hiring to fundraising. But rather than just pick the [...] Read more
I (May) Have a New Platform
Albert Wenger – Apr 8, 2008
Google has unveiled App Engine and unlike some other recent Google efforts this one feels fully baked and well thought-out. For starters it includes all the elements that I had identified in my post calling for a new platform, such [...] Read more
Covestor
Albert Wenger – Apr 6, 2008
Access to financial markets is fairly open. All it takes is a bit of money to set up a brokerage account and one can start buying stocks. Over the last decade the Internet has further opened up access by letting [...] Read more
Structural Change and Marketplaces
Albert Wenger – Mar 26, 2008
There was a brief period of time around 1999/2000 when it seemed that B2B marketplaces would rule the world of commerce, but then most of them collapsed. Just go to the URLs for three of the big names from back [...] Read more
I Want a New Platform
Albert Wenger – Sep 19, 2007
One that won’t go away (under load), one that doesn’t keep me up all night (worrying about scaling), one that won’t make me sleep all day (when I should be adding features). If you have tried to build an Internet [...] Read more
Hiring a VP of Engineering or CTO For Non-Techie (First Time) Founders
Albert Wenger – Aug 7, 2007
So you start a web service with some friends. They do the programming. You do everything else. Suddenly the service takes off. You are thrilled and getting ready to pop open the bubbly. But then things start to sputter as [...] Read more
Clickable
Albert Wenger – Jul 2, 2007
Advertising used to be a fairly simple affair for many smaller businesses. Simple because the choices that had to be made were generally limited, occurred infrequently and were not based on a lot of data. For instance, a business owner [...] Read more