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The best executive communication starts with the state of affairs. It's fact based, unambiguous. It's totally not controversial. No matter what side of an issue or a hard choice you're on, you should be able to read the situation and go, "That pretty much sums it up." Whether you're on one side or another of an issue, it doesn't matter. You should... See more

Today, most paid communities live on the outskirts of existing social platforms. But as they become normalized, paid communities are becoming a viable business model for smaller-scale social networks aiming to be both profitable and socially sustainable.

We focus on three broad “verticals” to help guide our investment decision making process. Our thesis for game investing is as follows:

In this paper, I will try to explain why I believe Snap is structured to win the social media war over the long term. I will also highlight the three key secret weapons around Snap’s vision to become the main connector between our physical and our digital world: (i) hardware with Spectacles, (ii) Augmented Reality capabilities, (iii) map... See more

Today, design for emergence—made profitable by SaaS—supports an enormous market of left-behind long-tail users.

At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”

So you were born to feel “nice”? Instead

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Most every article I read last week noted Bulletin’s email portability. But an important piece of fine print mostly got left out of the narrative: at launch, and maybe for a long time, Bulletin subscribers are only able to make purchases using Facebook’s own payment platform, Facebook Pay. And should you leave Bulletin, you can’t export those... See more