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Communities look different than they did 50—even 20—years ago. They are organized around businesses and brands and providing profound opportunities for companies around the world.
Jeffrey Bussgang • When Community Becomes Your Competitive Advantage
-To analogize, think of the iPhone in 08. To see the opportunity, you had to imagine 1) that weaknesses get mitigated (it gets faster, service gets better), and 2) entrepreneurs will take new features (like GPS) and create new ideas with them
Chris Dixon • The Potential of Blockchain Technology
I think about this quote from Bret Victor all the time:
I've spent a lot of time over the years desperately trying to think of a "thing" to change the world. I now know why the search was fruitless -- things don't change the world. People change the world by using things. The focus must be on the "using", not the "thing".
It seems odd to look at achievement through this lens, not as the thing the newspapers tell us it is, but – very often – as a species of mental illness. Those who put up the skyscrapers, write the bestselling books, perform on stage, or make partner may, in fact, be the unwell ones. Whereas the characters who – without agony – can bear an ordinary... See more
The School of Life • Overcoming the Need to Be Exceptional
PAYG’s defining characteristic is the alignment of cost and value. PAYG companies charge customers for only what they use, which means customers pay for only what they need. In favorable market conditions, this can be a boon, as PAYG companies are set up to quickly capture increases in activity. This alignment is more worrisome in a down market... See more
Justin Kahl • In Defense of Pay-as-You-Go
2. Market and business modelWhat is the big opportunity you are addressing? What are the steps to getting there?What is your business model? How will you make money? How big of a market is your specific market really?Who is the competition? Why will you beat them?Why are you uniquely positioned to win in the market?What is the market structure and... See more
Elad Gil • Questions VCs Will Ask You
In this essay, we’ve touched upon the emergence of the field of Sustainable UX. It's a subject-matter that is still in its infancy. Most people have yet to realize that software can pollute our planet. A dirty factory chimney or a polluted car is easy to label as unsustainable. But the intangible nature of software makes pollution too abstract to... See more
Pamela Danziger • The Pet Retail Market Is Hot And Getting Hotter By The Day
Right now, many of the successful applications for crypto technology are in finance or finance-adjacent fields. For example, people are using crypto to send cross-border remittances to family members abroad and Wall Street banks using blockchains to settle foreign transactions.
Kevin Roose • The Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto (Published 2022)
And then there’s Amazon, which already accounted for nearly 40 percent of all US online retail sales — that’s around eight times more than its next competitor, Walmart. Before the pandemic, the US e-commerce industry only represented between 10 percent and 15 percent of overall retail. Now, that percentage seems likely to grow, setting up Amazon to... See more