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M&A7
Bryant Wu

Capital Allocation

Startups173
Alex Wittenberg

When startups start taking off, the founders usually can't tell what's changed. It's some combination of all the random things they did to make it ta

Data13
Mo Shafieeha

From My Data to Our Data: A Proposal to Equitably Distribute Wealth in a Digital Economy

Data-Driven VC9
Björn Lapakko
Artificial Creativity14
Yang Zhou
Future of Money30
sari

AI-first companies are going to change the world. I’m going into learning mode on the space. I will share what I learn in real time on this thread:

Future of time21
Lien De Ruyck

AI-first companies are going to change the world. I’m going into learning mode on the space. I will share what I learn in real time on this thread:

Generative AI133
sari

编程这项工作非常适合 AI 增强或替代,原因如下:1/ 编码本质上要求工程师将问题分解成更小、更易管理的任务;2/ 有大量现有的训练数据;3/ 任务需要判断力和基于规则的工作相结合;4/ 解决方案利用可组合的模块(比如开源软件库等);5/ 在某些情况下,工作成果可以通过经验测试其正确性。这意味着可靠

AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence. Emphasizing the collectivity (som

Productivity230
Johanna

HEY Email

A good life doesn’t ask you to be good at everything. It asks you to find the small circle where you have unusual leverage, and to be peacefully avera

My father was a Sarkari Babu (government officer with basic salary) his entire life, he was at one job throughout his life. He drove a Bajaj scooter

Startup Advice284
sari

If you don’t have time to clean up, you don’t have time to cook Professionals understand that the project is the whole project, not simply the fun

Hindsight is 2020I don’t mean “hindsight is 20/20.” I’m talking about the year 2020.See, early in 2023, I wrote an article about starting and growing

A solid foundation requires a robust team structure. Hiring individuals who not only have the requisite skills but also align with the company’s cultu

Hiring Advice93
sari

People who don’t take themselves too seriously. They have to be able to laugh at themselves to succeed. What to look for: This is usually very easy to

The #1 thing I look for when hiring people is FIO. "Figure It Out" You can get pretty damn far just by being: - Resourceful - Reliable - Results or

@mckaywrigley I have a bunch of questions I ask. What would you build for yourself? What did previous companies you've worked for need? What are you a

Business Models60
sari

I came of age in the Napster days, when only fools spent money on anything digital. Early on, we decided that we’d rather pay for the internet with at

One mistake I often used to make at Justin.tv was offering a potpourri of business models (virtual goods, product placement, chat ads, contests, etc..

The problem in media isn’t the business model. The problem is that most of the content sucks.

Artificial General Intelligence5
Prashanth Narayan

AI-first companies are going to change the world. I’m going into learning mode on the space. I will share what I learn in real time on this thread:

deep learning4
Prashanth Narayan

Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall

AI-first companies are going to change the world. I’m going into learning mode on the space. I will share what I learn in real time on this thread:

Future of Education and Learning324
sari

In large part this is because education, like most social systems, is slow to adapt, iterate, and evolve to be relevant for changing times. The glacia

generative AI is but the latest in a line of innovations that draws attention to the flaws of the modern education system, leaving us to question how

The humanities, rightly understood, are the things that technology cannot take away or substitute for. Of course, I don’t mean ‘humanities’ in the way

Inspiration116
sari

when someone tells me to keep writing, it feels like a command to keep living.

Everyone wants to be picked, but no one wants to organize the collective ‘we’. It’s the ‘we’ that creates a school of thought, a movement, a network,

Early Career Advice58
Kassen Qian

Advice I would give to a college freshman: These next four years, one of your main goals should be to figure out how not to have the rest of your lif

Note Taking Tools78
sari

accurate https://t.co/kDKo3ZXiVX

The most underrated note taking app is still the photo album. I can instantly recall what I was doing weeks or years ago. A single picture evokes a do

wispr (dictation tool) is amazing and i'm now using it 60%+ of the time when i would've typed before. i'm going to put my referral link below - if you

Reading38
Tengji Zhang

the moralists ask us how we can justify our love of reading, we can make use of some such excuse as this. But if we are honest, we know that no such e

The hot new theory online is that reading is kaput, and therefore civilization is too. The rise of hyper-addictive digital technologies has shattered

TED’S 24 RULES FOR READINGReading shouldn’t be a goal—instead it ought to be cultivated as a habit.It should be a relaxing and enjoyable habit, someth

Creativity299
sari

www.simonstalenhag.se

The text actually moves back and forth between all of these. Few novels pay less attention to the rules of fiction than Zen and the Art of Motorcycle

surprise may be a better proxy for creativity than quality. A polished output is not necessarily creative, but a surprising one might be. Yet even sur

creating ecosystems for learning 11
Sixian

Just a moment...

7 Ways to Retain More of Every Book You Read

the art of writing257
Brie Wolfson

So much value and love for the process of writing and what it does for the coherence between heart, brain, imagination, lived reality, unseen, and see

You can’t write a viral essay that says “it’s complicated and I’m not sure.” But this is the only path to truly novel insight.

Writing is a task that takes both objective and subjective intelligence. LLMs ace the objective parts the same way they ace every test; you can’t faul

Strategy149
sari

Start in the future and work backward

If you pay attention, you’ll see that today’s winning brands understand the customer’s story is the only one that matters. Your most important job as

Solving a problem for your user is great, but easing their cognitive dissonance can have a much greater emotional impact. There is likely something th

The Questions Before the Questions

Product management144
sari
Recruiting Tech10
Sam Blumenthal
Infrastructure for Startups91
sari
Fundraising36
sari

There is no ideal pitch deck. The narrative depends on what you’re building—but I really like this one: 1. Vision for the world in 5 years 2. The nove

Product strategy170
Tom So

A great story about simplicity from Akio Morita, the instigator of the Walkman project at Sony: Engineers had the technology to add the recording func

Long-tail users of user-centered design are not given the degree of control necessary to adapt the design object or tool to their unique needs, and de

The engineer who truly understands the problem often finds that the elegant solution is simpler than anyone expected. The engineer who starts with a

freemium3
Mo Shafieeha

if you're a freemium business and you don't have one/few-click upgrades to team accounts when people hit feature walls, what could you possibly be doi

Tools for B2B SaaS companies8
Sam Blumenthal
Future of Wealth Management and Investing23
Timothy Shih
perspectives on funding and venture capital (VC)268
sari

Rob and I had to face the truth: Matter is a great product—3x App of the Day, with many thousands of passionate users—but it isn’t the next Duolingo.

When the institutions are optimized to fund the legible thing and the individuals are optimized to build the legible thing, the identity of the founde

Enterprization of Consumer17
sari
Bottoms up SaaS14
sari

How Do You Compete with Free? Notion: the embattled artist

Fintech17
Lillian Sheng
the art of pricing39
sari

maybe more interesting and differentiated (and fun!) subscription bundles can be created by combining two things you wouldn't typically associate with

Consumer Finance5
Kassen Qian

The Dumb Idea Paradox: Why great ideas often start out by sounding dumb. at andrewchen

Startups and Macro Risk

Enterprise SaaS9
Sam Blumenthal
Management & Leadership205
sari

The five principles of prompting I developed work equally well as management techniques for humans: Give direction. Describe the desired style in de

People who are good at solving poorly defined problems don't get the same kind of kudos. They don’t get any special titles or clubs. There is no test

2) Clear Roles & Decision Rights Without clear swim lanes and decision rights, individuals on teams feel disempowered and projects tend to stall out.

Engineering Management47
Tom So

Game of Trees

If you want to untangle something, like string or a cord, focus on adding as much “looseness” as you can rather than trying to untangle it. -Kevin Kel

The job of a code reviewer isn't to review code. It's to figure out how to obsolete their code review comment, that whole class of comment, in all fut

community management9
Vyara Ndejuru

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Home - BELONG: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life

Startup Growth104
sari

Aggressive growth projects often lead to UX cruft, slowly degrading long-term user engagement and retention. Yes, you can move short-term metrics by t

Founder Mode

Business Development12
Ted Glasnow

I’ve hosted events where only two people showed up. You have to keep at it. Big things start small, but when you have all these pressures and limited

Future of Work296
sari

Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress - by kyla scanlon

The game has shifted, and the winning strategy with it. It’s no longer about understanding specialized details; it’s about grasping the high-level glo

What we do with our freedomThe examples of the excruciating etiquette of the aristocratic courts, the marriage market Rhimes dramatised, the civil ass

Remote Work162
sari

Remember in the before times how on hard days you could grab your work bestie and go have lunch blocks away from whatever was bothering you?

Like many people I thought Covid, with its stopped clock and blunt force, would bring a major reckoning. A reckoning with small things, like what we w

Employee Wellbeing and Benefits42
sari

Asking people to change themselves instead of changing the work environment around them is a strategy that not only wastes resources but may also infu

When I train leaders in empathy, one of the first hurdles I need to get over is this stereotype that empathy is too soft and squishy for the work envi

Like many people I thought Covid, with its stopped clock and blunt force, would bring a major reckoning. A reckoning with small things, like what we w

Startup Advantages2
nicole
Business Building94
sari

1. It doesn’t have to be new. It just has to be fresh. The toy brick was invented (and patented) by British toymaker, Hilary Fisher Page in the 195

90% of Claude’s code is now written by AI, and this has completely transformed how they build products. The bottlenecks have shifted from engineering

hottest companies in Silicon Valley, famous for one thing: they made an extremely boring product extremely beloved. He speaks about how «technology ma

product design168
sari

"Every product in the world, the quality at the end of the day is simply a reflection of how much the people who created it gave a shit about the prod

we have a world where friction gets automated out of experiences, aestheticized in curated lifestyles, and dumped onto underfunded infrastructure and

Long-tail users of user-centered design are not given the degree of control necessary to adapt the design object or tool to their unique needs, and de

what is Social Media doing to us?239
Jerod Morris

We all know we’re overstimulated and want to stop, but we can’t. We use app blockers, throw our phones away, and build rigid routines. But none of it

humans don’t have fixed identities. we’re constantly testing. trying different versions of ourselves. seeing what gets rewarded. adjusting based on fe

I feel like there’s something so soulless about our culture—something deeply, deeply missing in people’s experience of life, a kind of superficiality.

content as capital24
Keely Adler

Perhaps this pattern of radicalisation followed by recuperation has even happened with each emergent technology – newspapers, novels, film, (pirate) r

Much of the pleasure of “generating content” — whether through a machine or by some other means, about oneself or about other things or about other th

Browsing the internet used to be a hobby of mine. Ever since my dad got us a modem when I was around ten, I spent hours at a time just looking at diff

What we’re seeing isn’t just a media trend. It’s a shift in the architecture of power. Attention → Speculation → Allocation. This is the new supply ch

business33
Mo Shafieeha

Most jobs are going away and they aren't coming back. AI is coming for everything.

Business Design3
Adam Zeiner
Workplace Collaboration and Productivity Tools187
sari
Software Development Best Practices11
Danielle Vermeer
innovation93
Prashanth Narayan

We should be skeptical of both utopian and dystopian technology predictions. New tools will amplify both our virtues and our vices, just like every pr

We see something that works, and then we understand it “We see something that works, and then we understand it.” (Thomas Dullien) It is a deeper

insights12
Juan Orbea
Mental Models22
Marcel Mairhofer

Hanlon’s Razor is a useful mental model which can be best summarized as: ‘Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by negle

We should all want to cultivate a thirty second mind that can absorb the essence of a problem and come up with insights based on deep fluency with how

On Being Lost

Business Intelligence7
c4ss1us [l1f3]

DataGPT - Conversational AI Data Analyst

On Being Lost

Product-market Fit21
Ted Glasnow

I often hear of founders shutting down their company after a year or so of trying, so I don't know who needs to hear this but: it takes anywhere betwe

Product-market fit works in both directions. The perspective of the builder is always toward what they can do to change their product, what features a

Multi Level Marketing (MLM) and Franchising11
sari
Future of Marketing and Advertising195
sari
Branding132
Mike Renaud

We were going to create a brand to serve people, not advertise to them.

Sales and CRM software15
Lillian Sheng
GTM (go to market strategy)55
sari

startups: build it and nobody will come until you figure out distribution which is way harder

Consumer SaaS78
sari

- ABCMouse is making north of $100M/year with a $7.99/month product

Software AND a Service is the new Software as a Service.

Marketplaces168
sari

Hyperconnected 'Kakao Kingdom' - "Everything is hyperconnected on KakaoTalk. It connects people, as well as numerous services affiliated from taxi-ha

All about social networks535
sari

So when people opt to devote their energy to tracking the latest TikTok star or scrolling content instead of nurturing interpersonal relationships, th

Social media stopped being primarily about connecting socially a long time ago. People still use a range of technologies to connect to friends and bui

Taste for Privacy: How Context, Identity, and Lived-Experience Shape Information Sharing Preferences

The social-platform layer offers the feeling of encounter with the friction surgically removed. As one analysis of Gen Z’s parasocial turn put it, onl

Performance Marketing11
sari

Here are (some) steps founders can take to get reporters to write about their companies (a thread). (Caveat: this thread is not exhaustive and really

Knowledge Management230
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Among the troubadours, there was a different class of people, called knowms. Thecouncil was told that the knowms had some special skills that may help

information becomes knowledge only through processes of verification and critical analysis.

This is what knowledge decay looks like. Not burning libraries, but a slow, structural dissolution of the connections between claims and their sources

Company Culture109
sari

The 37signals Guide to Internal Communication

2) Clear Roles & Decision Rights Without clear swim lanes and decision rights, individuals on teams feel disempowered and projects tend to stall out.

investing wisdom58
Daniel Bakalarz
pdf
founder's mentality262
sari

Don’t shrink the vision to fit the doubt

Organization Design87
sari

Human scale institutions strive for optimum scale. Not mega scale. The point at which maximum quality can be attained. Their purpose is not to maximiz

Community Design165
sari

In a model, agents are interchangeable. Consumer A and Consumer B have different preference curves, yes, but they respond to the same incentive struct

community growth43
Vyara Ndejuru

Eleven propositions to the question: What is contemporary about craft?

In-Person Events5
Ian Vanagas
Virtual Meetups and Events Infrastructure138
sari
Online Niche Communities244
sari

Communities = Human Search Engines?

Groups are hard to form in the first place. Think of how many random Discord communities you were invited into the past few years and how many are sti

Infrastructure for Communities185
sari

The future of community: a future for communities | thesephist.com

Community Building96
sari

If there's any kind of lesson in all this, it's mostly some advice I want to give myself. The lesson is simply: speak up. It's OK to slip into advocac

look at how the word “community” itself has been warped in recent years into a cynical marketing cliché to rival “storyteller” — annexed as the torche

to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

Community Engagement48
sari

Principle 2: Break up the conversation based on how, not whatNow that I’ve told you not to over-complicate your community architecture by introducing

There is often no compelling reason, even in online communities, to suggest people go into different rooms to discuss different topics.

A more sensible way to think about where conversations need to be broken up, that’s not topic, is format. In a physical space, the analogy might be—if

Intro to EGP

Scaling Intimacy14
sari

“People think that intimacy is about sex. Intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to the

This project is inspired by the transformative power of intimate gatherings. Most of my transformation has happened in intimate group settings where m

Vertical Social Networks66
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Product driven communities71
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How to design a high-value community

Member Communities84
sari

It’s rare for a member to convert from a lower tier to a higher tier. In most cases, it’s not worth it to have a way for people to pay you $2, $10, $5

To me, a membership is something you pay for to get access to a benefit you’re after. That benefit can be a community of your peers, but it doesn’t ha

We earn trust by stating our business model upfront – instead of ads, we monetize by charging directly. Directly charging creates high expectations fr

Prosumer79
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ivan zhao

Most people think in terms of “consumer” or “enterprise” but this misses some absolutely mammoth businesses that are a bit of both: - Figma - Adobe -

Request for Startups102
sari

Conviction

Infrastructure for Small Businesses37
sari

Here are (some) steps founders can take to get reporters to write about their companies (a thread). (Caveat: this thread is not exhaustive and really

Relationships105
Alex Wittenberg

the best relationships consist of a series of unbreachable private understandings

convinced that adults have totally forgotten how to have fun in conversation. every conversation is either "checklist catch up on life events" or "gr

What is love? Ask 19 geniuses. Get 19 answers. • Plato: It's remembering a soul. • Freud: It's desire in disguise. • Buddha: It's letting go. • Nietz

Future of Merch21
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GiftShop - The Finest Merch from the Finest Places

E-Commerce & Retail155
Sam Blumenthal
Infrastructure for commerce and DTC Brands196
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Consumer Brands305
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Consumer behavior is never done or satisfied. One of the great things about brands is that magical products or platforms or experiences can delight cu

Consumer founders today are solving for abundance. Too much food, pollution, stimulation, and connections leads to obesity, climate change, mental hea

DTC Brands & DNVBs457
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Personalized Commerce3
Sam Blumenthal
Future of Retail24
Sam Blumenthal
Curated Commerce57
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Tokenized Communities41
Jihad Esmail
Crypto-enabled Communities80
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Decentralized investor communities gain traction in biotech