tech, startups, internet
The return of the 90s web
“Are we ready to revisit some of the ideas of the early web again? There are trends that suggest we might just have come full circle – and I like it.” | learn more
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Balaji Srinivasan on The Portal podcast
Balaji is a blockchain guy, having most recently worked as CTO of Coinbase. He also was very early (January) with coronavirus analysis. This covers a lot of ground including how public health plays the role of a utility that we’ve […]
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The best way to get PR for your new software launch
The team at Basecamp launched a new paid email service called Hey.com this week. Like Gmail, it’s email service & email software bundled together with some new bells & whistles. The founders are now publicly feuding with Apple over the […]
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Venture capital patterns and mental models
This is basically cliff’s notes for venture capital. “Venture Patterns catalogs the best of what other startups and venture capitalists have figured out. Don’t reinvent the wheel. Since there are recurring patterns in how to build and run startups and […]
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Sexy air conditioners are coming this summer
This was published in the WSJ Magazine, so you know it’s classy “Clunky, view-obstructing window AC units are a thing of the past. The new wave of companies offering well-designed, quiet—dare we say—cool replacements.” | learn more
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Online events are not good yet
Another insightful analysis from Benedict Evans. “Events are a bundle of content, networking and meetings, and aggregate people in one place at one time. When you try to take this online, half of it breaks and most of it makes […]
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How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users
“Below, you’ll find first-hand accounts of how essentially every major consumer app acquired their earliest users, including lessons from Tinder, Uber, Superhuman, TikTok, Product Hunt, Netflix, and many more.” | learn more
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Journalists at Microsoft lose jobs to AI
AI’s march through the white-collar world continues. “Microsoft is laying off more than 50 journalists to replace them with AI for Microsoft News and MSN. It’s part of a bigger push to rely on AI for news curation on its […]
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“Most investors are not good at what they do.”
An interview with Nick Moran, General Partner at New Stack Ventures. | learn more
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Software will eat software in a remote-first world
Here’s an interesting take from Can writing for Margins. “As workers are more and more removed from the business, companies will get better at identifying what can be “automated”.” And as that happens, their collective power decreases. Will they lose […]