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Patents and the Growing Anti-Commons
Albert Wenger – Dec 12, 2011
The patent wars have really been heating up. For some time now Apple has been going around trying to get various Android devices off the market based on patent claims. Now the shoe is on the other foot as a [...] Read more
The Courage of Big Changes
Albert Wenger – Dec 9, 2011
As soon as your new startup has some actual endusers a fear of changes sets in. What if people don’t like it? What if they start to protest? I sometimes meet startups with only thousands of users that are firmly [...] Read more
Edmodo: Adding Greylock and Benchmark
Albert Wenger – Dec 8, 2011
After yesterday’s Twilio announcement, this will make two funding posts in a row but that’s just how it worked out: Edmodo today announced that the company has raised $15 million in a round led by Greylock and Benchmark. Reid Hoffman [...] Read more
Twilio: Fueling Up for Growth
Albert Wenger – Dec 7, 2011
Twilio has been growing rapidly in the US and they recently launched in the UK for voice with text coming soon. In addition to geographic expansion, Twilio has also been adding awesome new services such as Twilio Client and Twilio [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Programming (A Start)
Albert Wenger – Dec 6, 2011
Maybe I should have started the whole Tech Tuesday series with a post on programming since that’s why computers were created in the first place! In fact, thinking about programming in many ways precedes the availability of actual computers to [...] Read more
Burn Rate
Fred Wilson – Dec 5, 2011
MBA Mondays is back after a week off. Today we are going to talk about burn rate, or cash burn rate to be more specific. Your burn rate is the speed at which your cash balance is going down. If [...] Read more
SOPA as Prohibition (Darknets Are Bad For Society)
Albert Wenger – Dec 2, 2011
I am probably not the first to come up with this analogy (and I am on a flight without wifi, so I can’t look it up either) but it just struck me that there are big parallels between SOPA and [...] Read more
Negotiating a Term Sheet
Albert Wenger – Dec 1, 2011
There have been many great posts about the various terms that go into a termsheet for a venture investment. As a result entrepreneurs are much better informed which is a good thing all around. I am still puzzled at times [...] Read more
Privacy and Facebook
Albert Wenger – Nov 30, 2011
So Facebook settled with the FTC over privacy and Mark Zuckerberg wrote another apologetic blog post (as pointed out by Liz Gannes this is his tenth). Part of the need for these apologies comes from Facebook’s aggressive approach to releasing [...] Read more