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Announcing Crypto Startup School Instructors
Published: 11/12/2019Last month we announced a16z Crypto Startup School — a part-time, seven-week educational program that will run from February 21 – April 3, 2020. Today, we are excited to share a list of instruct ... Read moreSource: a16z.com -
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a16z Podcast: Direct Listings, Myths and Facts
Published: 11/12/2019We’ve covered a lot of the strategic financing milestones for startups seeking to build a sustainable and enduring business — from mindsets for startup fundraising to when and how to build a f ... Read moreSource: a16z.com -
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Product Zeitgeist Fit: A Cheat Code for Spotting and Building the Next Big Thing
Published: 10/12/2019It’s a Silicon Valley truism that product-market fit matters most for a startup. A founder’s ability to achieve that elusive goal is what separates the mega-donkey-deca-unicorn success stories from th ... Read moreSource: a16z.com
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a16z Podcast: The Stories and Code of Culture Change
Published: 7/12/2019There are some common tropes that can kill your company culture — whether it’s that corporate values can be weaponized; “fake it til you make it”; the “reality distortion ... Read moreSource: a16z.com -
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Nuclear Power and the Climate Crisis (Introduction)
Published: 5/12/2019People who want to fight the climate crisis tend to agree on a lot of things, but nuclear power turns out to be a highly divisive issue. In this series of posts I will use nuclear power to refer to fi ... Read moreSource: continuations.com -
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Programming Biology: Read (r), Write (w), Execute (x)
Published: 2/12/2019Our best tools for understanding and manipulating biology have historically been observation and experimentation. Then, we developed the ability to “ read” and “write” in biology . And now, the conver ... Read moreSource: a16z.com
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Climate Crisis: Humanity’s Biggest Opportunity
Published: 2/12/2019So far I have been writing about the climate crisis primarily as a threat, an extinction level threat for the human species. But the climate crisis is also humanity’s biggest opportunity. It is our op ... Read moreSource: continuations.com -
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Product Launches Become the Operating Cadence of a Startup
Published: 2/12/2019In November, two spectacles occurred. The first is Dreamforce, Salesforce's annual event and the largest software conference in the world. The second is Elon Musk announcing the Tesla Cybertruck. Beni ... Read moreSource: tomtunguz.com -
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Amazon’s Revolutionary Retail Strategy? Recycling Old Ideas
Published: 29/11/2019I sometimes think that if you could look in the safe behind Jeff Bezos’ desk, instead of the sports almanac from Back to the Future you’d find an Encyclopedia of Retail, written in maybe 1985. Ther ... Read moreSource: a16z.com
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a16z Podcast: Nursing Today, From the Bedside and Beyond
Published: 28/11/2019“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon”, diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld once observed — and that may be more true today than ever before. ... Read moreSource: a16z.com -
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Banking on the Future: Why our most hated institutions will become our most beloved
Published: 21/11/2019It’s expensive to be poor. There are two banking systems in the world today: one for people with money (or good credit), and another for people without. But neither of these systems work well. People ... Read moreSource: a16z.com -
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Benchmarking Your Sales and Customer Success Teams
Published: 21/11/2019Our portfolio company Chorus.ai released the State of Conversational Intelligence 2020 . The report uses data from 5m sales and customer calls to benchmark sales team performance. There’s lots of grea ... Read moreSource: tomtunguz.com
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a16z Podcast: Brand Building Ideas… and People
Published: 20/11/2019Many technical founders, academics, and other experts often believe that great products — or great ideas! — sell themselves , without any extra effort or marketing. But in reality, they of ... Read moreSource: a16z.com -
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The Housing Market is Killing the American Dream
Published: 20/11/2019Forget the automobile or the iPhone. Cities, according to the economist Ed Glaeser, are our greatest invention. When people move to cities, they exchange ideas, lower transportation and production cos ... Read moreSource: a16z.com -
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The 13 Critical Questions to Answer about Your Startup's Product Marketing
Published: 18/11/2019Last week’s post on The Most Frequent Mishire in Startups generated the most comments on a post this year. In particular, it was this section. Though the startup may have achieved product market ... Read moreSource: tomtunguz.com
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16 Minutes on the News #14: Pharma Drones; Veteran Health Records; Light to Voice Hacks
Published: 15/11/2019This is the 14th episode of 16 Minutes, our weekly-ish news show where we quickly cover the top headlines of the week, the a16z Podcast way: what’s real, what’s hype from our vantage point in tech. Th ... Read moreSource: a16z.com -
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Why We’re Investing in Virtual Kitchen Co
Published: 14/11/2019We all have our favorite places to dine out where we live — for me, that could be anything from enjoying a hot pot meal with friends in the Richmond district of San Francisco, grabbing a quick b ... Read moreSource: a16z.com -
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You’re Probably Asking the Wrong People For Career Advice
Published: 14/11/2019“Hey, I want to pick your brain about a new opportunity I’m considering. Can you grab a coffee next week?” My recoil when receiving these emails isn’t because I don’t wan ... Read moreSource: hunterwalk.com
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16 Steps to Securing Your Data (and Life)
Published: 12/11/2019Attackers look for the path of least resistance. Recently, that path has shifted from enterprise networks to you and your devices for two reasons. First, as we have built more secure software and syst ... Read moreSource: a16z.com
