tech, startups, internet
A comprehensive survey of product management
“What’s the product manager role like at different companies?” | learn more
Category: tech, startups, internet
tech, startups, internet
Liquidity for late stage startups
A post from Henry Ward of Carta on the launch of CartaX. “It is an odd artifact of history that private markets have zero liquidity, public markets have hyper-liquidity, and there is nothing in between.” | learn more
tech, startups, internet
Microsoft blog about recent cyberattacks
“The final weeks of a challenging year have proven even more difficult with the recent exposure of the world’s latest serious nation-state cyberattack. This latest cyber-assault is effectively an attack on the United States and its government and other critical […]
tech, startups, internet
What to do if you’re a startup CEO & you don’t know how to sell
“The first thing to confront is that as a CEO you’re the company’s primary salesperson. It doesn’t matter what industry, what product, what revenue model, what stage of development.” | learn more
tech, startups, internet
He was accepted into YC twice, with 2 different ideas, in back-to-back years
What I like about this is the author’s process for idea discovery—going and talking to people in the target market, then building a product that launches quickly to get real feedback. At the same time, this left me with a […]
tech, startups, internet
Toyota’s got a “game-changing” solid-state battery coming next year
“A trip of 500 km on one charge. A recharge from zero to full in 10 minutes. All with minimal safety concerns. The solid-state battery being introduced by Toyota promises to be a game changer not just for electric vehicles […]
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Value investing old timer Jeremy Grantham leans into venture capital
In a recent interview, he said his foundation is now targeting a 60-70% allocation to venture capital. Wow! It seems the target has been going up over the recent years, a decision driven by low interest rates. | learn more
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The best writing against, for, and on Substack
This newsletter is not powered by Substack, though I did consider switching in early 2018. “Many good points have been made on both sides, I’m compiling this writing here.” | learn more
tech, startups, internet
AlphaFold solves a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
There’s a great explainer video of the protein-folding problem included in this write-up. “In a major scientific advance, the latest version of our AI system AlphaFold has been recognised as a solution to the protein folding problem by the organisers […]
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What makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial?
A research paper by Saras D. Sarasvathy highlights his learnings from a deep survey of 30 founders in the late 1990s. He concludes that entrepreneurs use “effectual” rather than causal reasoning. “[I]t begins with a given set of means and […]