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16+ Terms Entrepreneurs Should Know for Navigating the Healthcare Industry
Published: 22/06/2018The U.S. spends over $3 trillion annually and healthcare accounts approaches 20% of our GDP — this is clearly an industry that is ripe with opportunity and lots of activity . But it is also rife ... Read moreSource: a16z.com -
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Addressing the Regulatory Gap for Individual (Retail) Crypto Investors
Published: 19/06/2018With the goals of encouraging innovation in cryptonetworks and yet protecting retail investors from fraudulent activity, many government regulators — from the SEC to state regulators — hav ... Read moreSource: a16z.com -
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a16z Podcast: Construction Under Tech — The Build
Published: 15/06/2018Continuing our series on how tech is changing construction — one of the industries most resistant to change (and facing declining productivity) — this episode of the a16z Podcast looks at ... Read moreSource: a16z.com
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What Do You Want From Me Besides Capital?
Published: 14/06/2018I live for that moment of flicker in an entrepreneur’s eye during a pitch discussion. The one which suggests I’ve asked a question which is simultaneously both new to their fundraising exp ... Read moreSource: hunterwalk.com -
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a16z Podcast: Tech Under Construction: Flows
Published: 14/06/2018By definition, construction has been one of the ‘brick-and-mortar’ industries most resistant to innovation and change over the last decades. So how are new technologies beginning to transf ... Read moreSource: a16z.com -
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a16z Podcast: Construction Under Tech — Info Flows
Published: 14/06/2018Construction has been one of the industries most resistant to innovation and change over the last decades — productivity has actually decreased there while it has risen in other industries aro ... Read moreSource: a16z.com
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The IRL channel: Offline to online, Online to offline
Published: 12/06/2018(📷 dmagazine) We’ve heard about Facebook ads, Google adwords – but today let’s talk about the “IRL Channel.” The IRL channel is an underappreciated advantage of c ... Read moreSource: andrewchen.co -
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Response To A Thought-Provoking Tweetstorm
Published: 12/06/2018A stranger (hopefully a future friend, Pietro Invernizzi) on Twitter tagged me as part of his tweetstorm earlier today about his hope for how VCs and founders should interact around and during a pitch ... Read moreSource: haystack.vc -
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The Blockbuster Software M&A Market of 2018
Published: 12/06/20182018 is a blockbuster year for software M&A multiples. The prices companies fetch relative to their revenues surpass any of those in the past 7 years. Billion-dollar plus acquisitions in 2018 have ... Read moreSource: www.tomtunguz.com
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Finance as Strategy: When and How Startups Should Build a Finance Function
Published: 11/06/2018watch time: 17 minutes Product and engineering lead the way with tech startups, as should HR, but unfortunately, this often means finance comes very last. Yet finance should come first — or at l ... Read moreSource: a16z.com -
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Seven Strategic Rationales for the Microsoft/Github Acquisition
Published: 10/06/2018Last week, Microsoft acquired it would acquire Github for $7.5B. It’s a massive acquisition at a massive price relative to other software acquisitions. Why is Microsoft willing to pay so much? D ... Read moreSource: www.tomtunguz.com -
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a16z Podcast: The End (and Beginning) of Programming
Published: 9/06/2018There are over 20 million programmers out there — and double that, if you count everyone else coding in other ways — but where are the next 100 million developers? How do we get to a billi ... Read moreSource: a16z.com
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When You Hire an Executive, You're Hiring a Network
Published: 7/06/2018You’ve just raised a round of financing. Your next step is to build your management team. There are several criteria for finding the right executive. Competency in the field, cultural fit, commu ... Read moreSource: www.tomtunguz.com -
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a16z Podcast: The Hard Things about Security
Published: 7/06/2018Here’s the hard thing about security: the more authentication factors you have, the more secure things are… but in practice, people won’t use too many factors, because they want ease ... Read moreSource: a16z.com -
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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub
Published: 5/06/2018Satya strikes again. After being installed in 2014 as Microsoft’s new CEO, Nadella has turned around the Seattle ocean liner on a new course after the Ballmer regime. With Microsoft’s stock price (and ... Read moreSource: haystack.vc
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How startups die from their addiction to paid marketing
Published: 4/06/2018[Originally tweetstormed at @andrewchen, Follow me for more!] Many of the biggest implosions in recent history – especially ecommerce – have been due to startups getting addicted to paid m ... Read moreSource: andrewchen.co -
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The 5 Forces Driving Startup Valuations Today
Published: 3/06/2018There are five forces driving the startup ecosystem today. They are working together to reinforce a high valuation environment. These forces are: An infusion of capital into Startupland. There are man ... Read moreSource: www.tomtunguz.com -
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Seed Deal Flow Tsunami And The Quick Kill
Published: 2/06/2018If you read yesterday’s post, you can see just how insane the proliferation of seed financings have been. As a result, I personally cannot keep up with all the deal flow. This a common refrain a ... Read moreSource: haystack.vc
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The Most Important Book You'll Read All Year
Published: 29/05/2018Imagine you came across this ad. Scientists have discovered a revolutionary new treatment that makes you live longer. It enhances your memory and makes you more creative. It makes you look more attrac ... Read moreSource: www.tomtunguz.com -
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a16z Podcast: When Journalism Goes Global
Published: 26/05/2018The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is the organization responsible for the compilation and release of the first the Panama Papers, a series of 11.5 million documents that detail ... Read moreSource: a16z.com
