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I wrote a book: Read Write Own
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NFTs and A Thousand True Fans
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Doing old things better vs doing brand new things
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Computers that can make commitments
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Inside-out vs. outside-in: the adoption of new technologies
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Strong and weak technologies
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Who will control the software that powers the Internet?
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Why decentralization matters
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Crypto token roundup
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Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design
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How Aristotle Created the Computer
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Gadgets and Computers
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As [Edwin] Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his [polarized headlight] system was fatally…
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Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology
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“Ether is a necessary element — a fuel — for operating the distributed application platform…
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“Steve Jobs supposedly said, returning to Apple, that his plan was to stay alive and grab onto the…
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“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they…
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“The typical path of how people respond to life-changing inventions
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Comma.ai
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The Internet Economy
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What’s Next in Computing?
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If an alien film crew chose to feature our species in a nature documentary, they’d have plenty of…
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Nine reasons screenshots are awesome
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It’s hard to believe today, but 10 years ago Wikipedia was widely considered a doomed experiment…
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Lessons from the PC video game industry
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Gordon Moore on self-driving cars
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One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony.
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Keybase: bringing public-key cryptography to mainstream users
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The Babe Ruth Effect in Venture Capital
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Exponential curves feel gradual and then sudden
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Proprietary services vs open protocols
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Improbable: enabling the development of large-scale simulated worlds
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"It all blossomed out of this tiny little seed"
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The idea maze for AI startups
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Come for the tool, stay for the network
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Virtual reality: a new creative medium where the default state is belief
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Stack Exchange
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Skydio
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How We Got To Now
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VC investment vs Gartner hype cycle
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Flow
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The thin edge of the wedge for virtual reality
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"The Not So Global Internet"
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Two eras of the internet: pull and push
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"The dawn of trustworthy computing"
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Top 10 websites
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"This business is like bird spotting"
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"The business plans of the next 10,000 startups are easy to forecast: Take X and add AI."
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"A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket"
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"There's no way to tell where the border is between measurement and manipulation"
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The return of podcasting
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"The Future of Reading Depends on the Future of Learning Difficult to Learn Things"
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We asked for flying cars and all we got was the entire planet communicating instantly via pocket supercomputers
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"The great ideas have come from people who weren’t paid to have great ideas"
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"A lot of the best tech startups are ideas that have been around for years"
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"A standard protocol for machines to negotiate bitcoin payments for resources"
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"You actually have to remind yourself not to believe"
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Some ideas for native bitcoin apps
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"Natural languages are adequate, but that doesn't mean they're optimal"
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Steve Jobs on problem solving
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"Bitcoin is the currency the internet deserves and needs"
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As elegantly produced as movies and as engaging as great novels
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Three levels of enthusiasm for technology
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Bitcoin and volatility
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"It's pretty difficult to solve big problems in four years"
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The next twenty years are going to make this last twenty years just pale
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Software eats software development
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The decline of the mobile web
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Oculus
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"We leverage the billions of dollars spent on the consumer mobile phone business"
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"There's just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product"
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Full stack startups
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Stored Hashcash
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Four categories of Bitcoin-related projects
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"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies"
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If you asked people in 1989...
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Coinbase
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Some thoughts on startup crowdfunding
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The Internet is for snacking
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The idea maze
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Some thoughts on mobile
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Hardware startups
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Technology predictions
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What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years
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“PCs are going to be like trucks”
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The credentials trap
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The computing deployment phase
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Samsung’s predicament
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Plans are nothing, but planning is indispensable
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The product lens
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Some problems are so hard they need to be solved piece by piece
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a16z
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Agency problems
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The economic logic behind tech and talent acquisitions
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Regulatory hacks
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The rise of enterprise marketing
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Vanity milestones
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Notes on the acquisition process
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The time to eat the hors d’oeuvres is when they’re being passed
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E-commerce startups
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Ten million users is the new one million users
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Shoehorning startups into the VC model
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Capabilities and sensibilities
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How bundling benefits sellers and buyers
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Pricing to the demand curve
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The real strategy behind tiered data plans
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Why the integrated approach to mobile devices is winning
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Firing
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Critics and practitioners
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Equity value
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Different types of risk
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Some thoughts on when to raise money, and the current financing environment
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The experience economy
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When should you give up on an idea?
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Four types of mobile apps
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The default state of a startup is failure
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Blogging to learn
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Is it a tech bubble?
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Incumbents die due to irrelevance or ineptitude
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The risks of being a small investor in a private company
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Outsource things you don’t care about
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Offline first, mobile enabled
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“Meaningful” startups
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There are two ways to make large datasets useful
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Increasing velocity
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Facebook’s response to Yahoo’s patent lawsuit
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Revisited: big VCs investing in seed rounds
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Give away the diagnostic, sell the remedy
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The myth of the overnight success
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Some tips for interacting with the press
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The internet is reshaping our economy from one of huge corporations with lots of jobs to huge platforms with lots of income streams
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Once you take money, the clock starts ticking
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Big timing
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“It is the human friction that makes the sparks”
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Platform distribution risks
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Between failure and Facebook
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eBay vs Amazon: decentralized vs centralized e-commerce
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Some thoughts on the iPhone contact list controversy and app security
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And then, suddenly, it works
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Bedrock programming
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Who should learn to program?
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Chris Sacca on the implied user contract
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What’s not evil: ranking content fairly *and* letting public content get indexed
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Revenue vs margin
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Maximizing capacity utilization as a startup premise
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Building products from improvised user behaviors
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Recruiting programmers to your startup
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What jobs are users hiring your product to perform?
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Trusting platforms
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An internet of people
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Forces that affect whether a large company will buy your product (according to Marc Andreessen)
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Later-stage rounds and “setting the bar too high”
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Three types of acquisitions
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Technology and job creation
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Growth curves of startups
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Always have 18 months of cash in the bank
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Making industries “garage ready” for startups
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Why is enterprise tech so far behind consumer tech? Because it can be.
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The enterprise: buyers versus users
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“Otherwise do something else”
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Business development: the Goldilocks principle
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Some lessons learned
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Owning equity in your company should be as common as owning equity in your home
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Do you want to sell sugar water or do you want to change the world?
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What the NYC startup world needs (and doesn’t need)
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Pivoting into a new corporate structure
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The downside of accelerated investment decisions
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The tragedy of the anticommons
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Thomas Jefferson on Patents
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Founder/market fit
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Allocation investing and the social premium
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Notes on raising seed financing
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Accurate contrarian theories
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Options
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Best practices for raising a VC round
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There are two kinds of people in the world
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Inferring intent on mobile devices
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Financing risk
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Apple and the TV industry
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Showing up
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Google’s social strategy
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App store shenanigans
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A few points about the “tech bubble” debate
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Founder Stories
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SEO is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups
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The importance of predictability for platform developers
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Selling pickaxes during a gold rush
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Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet dramatically transformed, it will.
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The “thin edge of the wedge” strategy
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The interoperability of social networks
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Timing your startup
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Instrumenting the offline world
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You need to use social services to understand them
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Online privacy: what’s at stake
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Some thoughts on incumbents
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The segmentation of the venture industry
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If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough
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Web services should be both federated and extensible
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Converts versus equity deals
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Good bizdev cannibalizes itself
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The bowling pin strategy
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Graphs
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It’s not that seed investors are smarter – it’s that entrepreneurs are
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Competition is overrated
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Builders and extractors
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Pivoting
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Designing products for single and multiplayer modes
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Inside versus outside financings: the nightclub effect
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Steve Jobs single-handedly restructured the mobile industry
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There are three New York Cities
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While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core
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Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads
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Facebook, Zynga, and buyer-supplier hold up
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Old VC firms: get ready to be disrupted
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The tradeoff between open and closed
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Twitter and third-party Twitter developers
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Underhyping your startup
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Size markets using narratives, not numbers
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Capitalism just like Adam Smith pictured it
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Stickiness is bad for business
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Developing new startup ideas
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The importance of investor signaling in venture pricing
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News is a lousy business for Google too
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It’s not East Coast vs West Coast, it’s about making more places like the Valley
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A massive misallocation of online advertising dollars
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Don’t be creative about the wrong things
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Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies
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Selling to enterprises
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The NYC tech scene is exploding
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Institutional failure
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Being friendly has become a competitive advantage in VC
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Should Apple be more open?
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Incumbents
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How to disrupt Wall Street
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Techies and normals
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Collective knowledge systems
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Security through diversity
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Shutting down
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The next big thing will start out looking like a toy
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What’s strategic for Google?
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What’s the right amount of seed money to raise?
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Are people more willing to pay for digital goods on mobile devices?
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Why the web economy will continue growing rapidly
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Google should open source what actually matters: their search ranking algorithm
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Anatomy of a bad search result
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Google’s feature creep
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Search and the social graph
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Why did Skype succeed and Joost fail?
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Does a VC’s brand matter?
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Some thoughts on SEO
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The importance of institutional redundancy
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Pitch yourself, not your idea
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Presenting Founder Collective
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How to select your angel investors
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The most important question to ask before taking seed money
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Embrace the medium
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Twelve months notice
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The ideal startup career path
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The challenge of creating a new category
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If Verizon’s Droid is good, that’s bad for the wireless ecosystem
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Dow 10,000 and economic reflexivity
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What’s the relationship between cost and price?
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What carries you up will also bring you down
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Understanding your market
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Man and superman
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The importance of asking people questions
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The problem with online “local” businesses
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Why does it matter that Twitter is supplanting RSS?
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Twitter killed RSS (and that’s a bad thing)
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Why content sites are getting ripped off
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The new economy
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What if online business model innovation is slowing down?
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Online advertising is all about purchasing intent
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Yahoo should invest in products, not advertising
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Software patents should be abolished
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Climbing the wrong hill
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Thanks…
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The inevitable showdown between Twitter and Twitter apps
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Entrepreneurs need to learn some law
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Google and newspapers: the false choice of opting out
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Non-linearity of technology adoption
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Getting a job in venture capital
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Is now a good time to start a company?
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The only college major that matters
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Which VC firm should I pitch?
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Dividing free and paid features in “freemium” products
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Incubators
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New York City needs a tech startup blog
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Don’t shop your term sheet
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Question from a reader
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Information is the (other) currency of venture capital
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New York City is poised for a tech revival
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VC’s care about the upside case, not the mean
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To make smarter systems, it’s all about the data
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Thales the Milesian
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function my_exit_payout(…)
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Pitching the VC partnership
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The one number you should know about your equity grant
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Six strategies for overcoming “chicken and egg” problems
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Dividing equity between founders
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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret
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Machine learning is really good at partially solving just about any problem
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Options on early stage companies
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Ideal first round funding terms
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The problem with tranched VC investments
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Why seed investors don’t like convertible notes
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The myth of the Eureka moment
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Joining a startup is far less risky than most people think
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Founder vesting
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Naming your startup
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