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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