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Hard startups
Sam Altman writes, “The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one.” | learn more
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The risk of distributing risk
Lambda School is a startup programming school that uses income sharing agreements to tie tuition payments to students’ income (no income = no tuition). That leaves ‘accounts receivable’ stretching out for years, so they sell it off to outside investors […]
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The deployment age
In this 2015 article, investor Jerry Neumann walks us through Carlota Perez’s framework on technological revolutions. “The wave that we are currently in, the Information and Communications Technology Revolution, started around 1971.” If we’re truly on the back-half of the […]
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The arc of collaboration
Productivity software (e.g. Dropbox) and collaboration software (e.g. Slack) have long been separated. This post discusses how the next step in software combines the two, “and why the Slack of Gaming may be Discord but the Discord for Enterprise is […]
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Fred Wilson buys 1% of a 1985 Nike Air Jordan collection
He’s jumped on the fractional ownership of collectibles bandwagon via their portfolio company Otis. A couple years ago I bought 1% of a 1985 Ferrari Testarossa on Rally, marking probably the first and last time I beat Fred Wilson to early adoption […]
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Remote gardening
An entertaining Kickstarter project, but nowhere near its funding goal. “Now you can grow and harvest your own produce from the comfort of your own customized App… A monthly subscription gives you viewing and watering access to your plot. You’ll […]
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Stratechery’s analysis of Visa’s acquisition of Plaid
Ben Thompson begins at the beginning: the rollout of Bank Americard (which would become Visa) in Fresno, CA in 1958. Not mentioned here, but interesting: Visa’s founder Dee Hock launched to 100k customers in 90 days – before the internet […]
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Starlink is a big deal (possibly)
Starlink is the network of satellites that Elon Musk’s SpaceX has started launching to provide global internet coverage. Jeffrey Paul, the author of this post, explains why it’s a big deal. I’m inclined to agree with him. One criticism, though: […]
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USV and the climate crisis
Union Square Ventures is broadening its investing lens to include climate-related businesses. My favorite part: “As part of this effort we are also opening up our internal research – this deck is what we as a team have been using to keep […]
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The fat startup is born
In 2018, Steve Blank asked if the lean startup was dead. It was a commentary on Jeff Katzenberg’s media startup raising almost $2B before launch. Well, fast forward to today, and that startup has a name (Quibi) and a teaser […]