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James Currier • Network Bonding Theory: Grow Your Startup By Making It A Network

At the same time, I think there’s a real challenge around over-economizing some of these spaces. My experience in some of the early tokenized social networks is kind of this icky feeling that you’re not just talking to each other for, you know, for its own sake, but you’re trying to somehow exploit the relationship for monetary gain.

Wong Joon Ian • Pacenotes: Exit to Community and Personal Tokens with Nathan Schneider

Another thing to consider is that one of the most important factors for success of a company is the quality of its engineers. The best way to lower development costs is to hire great engineers: they don’t cost much more than mediocre engineers but have tremendously higher productivity. However, the best engineers care deeply about good design. If y

John K. Ousterhout • A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition

With early investments in social media companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare and Zynga, Fred Wilson has become one of the world's most watched angel investors. And one of the opportunities he is watching most attentively is the emerging industry of digital money.

Michael Green • In Gold We Trust? The Future of Money in an Age of Uncertainty (Kindle Single)

The data is often free or cheap, the hardware and software are free or inexpensive, but the people are expensive and difficult to hire.

Thomas H. Davenport • Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities

Early-stage venture capital investments take a long time to come to fruition. These or other YC companies from after Graham’s tenure may yet prove to be economically and culturally important like their forerunners. The evidence so far, however, suggests that their impact is well below that of earlier YC companies of similar age, in spite of their h... See more

LinkedIn’s chairman Reid Hoffman, who also founded PayPal and has worked on startups for over 20 years, is one of the best-connected and most-liked people around Silicon Valley.[952] When Hoffman joined Microsoft’s board, he said he would help Microsoft build stronger connections around Silicon Valley[953] — a key asset for Microsoft, which for man

Aditya Agashe • Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy (Fast Forward Your Product Career: The Two Books Required to Land Any PM Job)

Venture capital has delivered great historical returns but is illiquid and hard to access. Fortunately, innovation does not occur only at venture-backed startups.

Kai Wu • Liquid Venture Capital

When I started at Instagram, the Adjacent User was women 35–45 years old in the US who had a Facebook account but didn’t see the value of Instagram. By the time I left Instagram, the Adjacent User was women in Jakarta, on an older 3G Android phone with a prepaid mobile plan.