Joey DeBruin
@joeydebruin
Helping communities build public knowledge online. Founder @withBackdrop. Past/current product/advisory roles @Benchling @ResearchGate @Forefront__ @SeedClub
Joey DeBruin
🚨NEW: Once again, Americans filed to start new businesses like never before last year.
The Census Bureau tallied nearly 1.7m applications to start new likely employer businesses in 2022 -- 28% more than before the pandemic.
https://eig.org/2022-business-formation/…
Idea machines are not new, but the form in which they appear is changing. For most of the 20th century, the home for idea machines was foundations, first popularized by John D. Rockefeller in the 1910s.
Nadia Asparouhova • Idea Machines
💡 30 Ideas as we wrap @beondeck's 19th Cohort 💡
Here are 30 ideas about founders, startups, San Francisco, sales, fundraising, and more taken from the second half of the program — sourced from fellows, guests, and me (blame me for the ones you disagree with most vehemently… Show more
Knowledge grows like species evolve. Ideas are combined to form new knowledge in a process we can call bisociation , such that new knowledge is really just a combination of existing ideas.
Oliver Hunt • Building a 21st century interface for science
Defined broadly, ‘ads’ are pieces of paid, targeted media meant to drive user behavior in a specific direction .... Web 3 marketing will be radically different in ways that are hard to imagine now (though we’ll try in a moment), which is why it’s key to get the attribution system right first. With the media cash register in place, the budding web 3... See more
Antonio Garcia Martinez • Everything is an ad network
Instead, an optimal equilibrium may be 1) protocols sustain themselves through "productive fees" that make the the protocol better, faster, stronger such that products want to build on top, and 2) product teams charge "extractive fees" that capture the value they create for end-users.
Jesse Walden • Productive Fees : Valuable Protocols / Extractive Fees : Valuable Companies
From my POV some people innately have more conviction than others, sure, but most people don’t even try to build any of their own because they’re so used to blindly adopting the opinions of others
Molly Mielke McCarthy • conviction
The downside of lead generation businesses is that they can be a race to the bottom if they're in a crowded and competitive market. The barriers to entry are essentially aggregating supply (i.e. buyers of leads or businesses willing to pay for new customers) so there is little in the way of defensibility. The other downside is that they are very... See more