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By 2006, Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures was dissecting the impact of digital media’s disaggregation on content creation, editorial, distribution, and revenue generation. He noted “the first step in the content consumption process (finding the content you want) is being monetized by Google and Yahoo! and others, not by the companies that are... See more
Devin Walsh • UnMixed Motives
Are Weirdos the Key to Everything?
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Second, I’m reflecting on a point former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale famously made in 1995: “There are only two ways to make money in business: bundling and unbundling.” I think we’re burnt out by the fragmentation that the D2C era brought to everything. After subscribing to tons of hyper-niche content over the years, the idea of a couple brands we... See more
Michelle Rose Joseph • No. 13 — Reclaiming Discovery From the Algorithms
company builders, not financiers. We
Patrick Vernon • Venture Capital Strategy: How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist
The faster the experimentation cycles, the faster the learning, the more of an advantage you have over established people and companies.
Leo Guinan • The Build In Public Manifesto
The job
Jason Fried • Remote: Office Not Required
Sean feels that his job as a business owner is not to endlessly increase profits, or even to defeat the competition, but instead to create better and better products and services that his customers benefit from in their lives and work.