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Manufacturing Scarcity
Andy Weissman – Apr 10, 2013
You can't always get what you want But if you try sometimes well you might find You get what you need The musician Prince recently found short videos clips from the Twitter-owned video sharing service Vine to be offending because [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: More Best Practices for Growth (Engineering)
Albert Wenger – Apr 9, 2013
Last Tech Tuesday, I wrote about growing your engineering organization and the week before that about evolving your technology. Today here are three more best practices for successful engineering growth: APIs - I will have a lot more to say [...] Read more
Don’t Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste
Fred Wilson – Apr 8, 2013
My partner Albert shared this line on his blog almost five years ago now. I find myself using it all the time. And it is an important lesson that I have learned in my career. When something goes badly in [...] Read more
Ziggeo Now Out of Beta
Albert Wenger – Apr 8, 2013
Susan and Oliver’s startup Ziggeo is now out of beta. Today they launched three simple pricing plans which include a free tier. To let everyone try out Ziggeo, I have set up a “screening room” where you can ask me [...] Read more
Facebook Home
Albert Wenger – Apr 5, 2013
Yesterday Facebook announced “Home,” a homescreen takeover application for Android that makes Facebook your phones primary interaction surface. Here are my initial reactions. First, this is a smart move by Facebook as an attempt to counter the threat of unbundling [...] Read more
Bitcoin: The Wild West Years
Albert Wenger – Apr 4, 2013
Anybody following bitcoin will know that the cryptographic currency had a huge run up recently that has brought with it an increase in fraudulent activities, including a DDoS attack on Mt. Gox and an epic theft of $3.5 million worth [...] Read more
New York City Crosswalks: Safety and Bayes
Albert Wenger – Apr 3, 2013
This morning’s NY Times has a couple of interesting stories. The first is that apparently the rate for bribery in NY State and City legislatures is as low as $20K. But the one that really caught my attention was the [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Growing Your Engineering Organization
Albert Wenger – Apr 2, 2013
Last Tech Tuesday I wrote about evolving your technology as you grow. As, if not more important, is how you grow your engineering organization. They after all are the ones who need to make the right choices about the technology! [...] Read more
The Unbundling of Publishing
Albert Wenger – Apr 1, 2013
Tonight I am giving a brief talk at a Publishing Point event organized by Susan and Jenny. Here are some notes that I pulled together in preparation, written up as a blog post. At USV one of our big investment [...] Read more