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“Convince Me” said the Investor. “No” said the Founder.
Published: 24/09/2017It’s in a founder’s natural disposition to want to convince people of their point of view. And while engaging substantively with those who disagree is often an excellent way to both stress ... Read moreSource: hunterwalk.com -
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Who Startups Truly Compete With — Each Other
Published: 23/09/2017When a founding team is raising institutional money — either an institutional seed or Series A/B round — those founding teams may have a slide in their pitch deck which shows the competiti ... Read moreSource: blog.semilshah.com -
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The Unknown Path to a Decentralized Future
Published: 22/09/2017Today’s post is over at USV.com on “ The Unknown Path to a Decentralized Future. ” Here is the opening: Some companies with currently centralized services have been criticized for issuing tokens ... Read moreSource: continuations.com
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Uncertainty Wednesday: Weather - Climate
Published: 20/09/2017Last Uncertainty Wednesday I introduced how think about weather using the concepts we have developed in this series. We saw that our improved data collection and ability to process more complicated we ... Read moreSource: continuations.com -
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Fake Cues: Why The Next Photo Innovation May Be Helping You Tell a Lie
Published: 19/09/2017I want to share something which might be a bit unsettling – whenever I’m looking at you, I’m judging. Whether it’s in person or a static photo. I just can’t help it. It&# ... Read moreSource: hunterwalk.com -
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The Markets Ignore Inputs But Over Time, Not The Means
Published: 18/09/2017When asked for advice about a career in tech my feedback varies based on the individual’s goals but always ends with “…you can recover from any failure except one where you ruined yo ... Read moreSource: hunterwalk.com
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Quickly Unpacking Nestle’s Majority Investment In Blue Bottle Coffee
Published: 18/09/2017Earlier this week, it was reported that Bay Area coffee roaster and coffee icon Blue Bottle received a massive investment from Nestle Corporation, giving it a majority stake in the company and, by som ... Read moreSource: blog.semilshah.com -
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How Much Should A SaaS Startup Invest in Sales & Marketing?
Published: 17/09/2017How much should a SaaS startup invest in sales and marketing at different stages of the business? This is a very nuanced question, but benchmarks do provide some guidance for what is reasonable. Sales ... Read moreSource: www.tomtunguz.com -
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a16z Podcast: Getting Applications Into People’s Hands
Published: 15/09/2017The story of how innovation happens is a long one — from government funding early basic research, to the heyday of corporate R&D like Bell Labs, to startups as experiments before product-mar ... Read moreSource: a16z.com
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Seeing Through The Hangover “Fog” From 2014-2015
Published: 13/09/2017Earlier this week (on Monday the 11th), I wrote the following note to every CEO/founder I’ve invested in. I didn’t intend to write to write for it public consumption, but a bunch of them s ... Read moreSource: blog.semilshah.com -
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Ownership - A Defining Trait of a Leader
Published: 13/09/2017One of the hardest things for me is to admit is when I’m wrong. It’s hard first to admit it to myself. But harder yet is to admit the error to others. It could be my wife or my colleagues. ... Read moreSource: www.tomtunguz.com -
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Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions?
Published: 12/09/2017Comments Read moreSource: a16z.com
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Should You Consider Emotional Intelligence When Hiring Your Startup's Team?
Published: 10/09/2017How important is hiring for emotional intelligence? EQ or EI was introduced in 1964 by Michael Beldoch and popularized by Daniel Goleman in 1995. I hear EQ uttered in nearly every job interview and ev ... Read moreSource: www.tomtunguz.com -
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a16z Podcast: Adjusting to Trade… and Innovation
Published: 9/09/2017Beyond the overly simplistic framing of trade as “good” or “bad” — by politicians, by Econ 101 — why is the topic of trade (or rather, economies and people adjustin ... Read moreSource: a16z.com -
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The Bot Registration Act of 2017 Could Improve Twitter For Us Humans
Published: 9/09/2017This sounds like an X-Men storyline, but Twitter needs to ask all bot accounts to register as such & then badge. Bots can be very useful but users should know they’re following a bot & b ... Read moreSource: hunterwalk.com
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ICOs and the Promise and Perils of a Global Capital Market for Everyone
Published: 8/09/2017I have already written a bunch about ICOs here on Continuations, including earlier this week about the Chinese ban . Regulators are approaching this, not surprisingly, by focusing on their own country ... Read moreSource: continuations.com -
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DACA and the Immigration Policy Mess: Pass the DREAM Act
Published: 6/09/2017Since I am an immigrant to the United States I want to comment on the Trump administration’s announcement yesterday to end DACA ( Uncertainty Wednesday will resume next week). I first came to t ... Read moreSource: continuations.com -
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The Challenges of the Platform Go To Market
Published: 6/09/2017One of the most difficult go-to-market strategies for startups is platform. Platform go to markets mean selling software that can do many things, depending on the customer need. Selling a platform is ... Read moreSource: www.tomtunguz.com
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a16z Podcast: The Macro and the Micro of Parenting
Published: 5/09/2017We tend to talk about tech and parenting through devices and artifacts — screen time, to code or not to code — but actually, there’s a bigger, macro picture at play there: game theor ... Read moreSource: a16z.com -
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The Theory and Data Underpinning Sales Commission Plans
Published: 4/09/2017Every startup’s sales commission plan is different. But it’s key to understand the theory and the benchmark data that governs the creation of sales commission plans to create a good one fo ... Read moreSource: www.tomtunguz.com
