We are excited to be investors in Twilio as they transform telephony from cumbersome, proprietary and expensive into an easy-to-use web service. We also love the team’s creativity in promoting Twilio to developers, including the idea for this week’s contest: lunch with the USV team. We will be working with the Twilio team to pick the winner from this week’s entrants. As such, I thought it would be helpful to point to some of the criteria that we look for in evaluating innovation on the web. F...

We are excited to be investors in Twilio as they transform telephony from cumbersome, proprietary and expensive into an easy-to-use web service. We also love the team’s creativity in promoting Twilio to developers, including the idea for this week’s contest: lunch with the USV team. We will be working with the Twilio team to pick the winner from this week’s entrants. As such, I thought it would be helpful to point to some of the criteria that we look for in evaluating innovation on the web. F...