9 Best Articles in 2020
Fast Company
All the things COVID-19 will change forever, according to 30 top experts
Fast Company
~11 min read · 901 saves · Apr 20th · Mark Sullivan · The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly changed how the world does business. Work?shifted, where possible, into people’s homes and online?in accordance with social distancing guidelines. As a result, businesses’ longstanding resistance to remote employees dissolved,?and the lines between work and family life, long blurred, blended overnight. Even when?life returns to some form of normal, some of these changes will stick, according to tech journalist Mark Sullivan's?interviews with?CEOs and business leaders from a cross-section of industries.
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16 Startup Metrics | Andreessen Horowitz
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9 min read · 873 saves · From 2015 · We have the privilege of meeting with thousands of entrepreneurs every year, and in the course of those discussions are presented with all kinds of numbers, measures, and metrics that illustrate the…
Signal v. Noise
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Signal v. Noise
20+ min read · 810 saves · From 2015 · About 12 years ago, I co-founded a startup called Basecamp: A simple project collaboration tool that helps people make progress together, sold on a monthly subscription. It took a part of some…
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Coronavirus: The Black Swan of 2020
medium.com
6 min read · 588 saves · Mar 5th · Here is a note that we sent to Sequoia founders and CEOs today to provide guidance on how to ensure the health of their business while…
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Understanding Customer Acquisition Costs? — Growth Hacking, Marketing and Venture Capital
medium.com
4 min read · 485 saves · From 2015 · The framework VCs use
alexanderjarvis.com
Collection of pitch decks from venture capital funded startups
alexanderjarvis.com
481 saves · From 2015
Benedict Evans
Mobile is eating the world
Benedict Evans
400 saves · From 2017 · As we pass 2.5bn smartphones on earth and head towards 5bn, and mobile moves from creation to deployment, the questions change. What's the state of the smartphone, machine learning and 'GAFA', and what can we build as we stand on the shoulders of giants?
Benedict Evans
Presentations — Benedict Evans
Benedict Evans
389 saves · Jan 28th · Presentations by Benedict Evans: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, The End of the Beginning and Mobile is Eating the world.
Andrew Chen
The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup's metrics
Andrew Chen
20+ min read · 388 saves · From 2018 · Entrepreneurs and investors base decisions on user growth forecasts. But common models for user growth rely on lagging indicators. In this clever article, venture capitalist Andrew Chen details a method for understanding and predicting growth via user “acquisition loops” and “engagement loops.” Start-up investors and entrepreneurs will appreciate Chen’s authoritative take on this crucial subject, as well as his emphasis on sustainability and quality.
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The New York Times
‘This Is Insanity’: Start-Ups End Year in a Deal Frenzy
The New York Times
6 min read · 100 saves · Dec 7th · Erin Griffith · Investors are tripping over one another to give hot start-ups money. DoorDash and Airbnb are going public. The good times are baaack.
Business Insider
81 startups that will boom in 2021, according to the startup experts: venture capitalists
Business Insider
~11 min read · 87 saves · Dec 18th · Investors at the best venture capital firms name the startups poised for a big 2021 inside and outside of their portfolios and across industries.
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The Rise Of Everywhere
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1 min read · 37 saves · Dec 15th · This is a theme I have come back to many times over the last decade but in the wake of all of the headlines about high profile founders, VCs, and companies leaving the bay area, I thought I would…
TIME
Eric Yuan Is TIME's 2020 Businessperson of the Year
TIME
9 min read · 22 saves · Dec 11th · How the CEO of Zoom brought an isolated world a little closer together
Forbes
51 VCs Who Want To Invest In Women, Black And Latinx, And LGBTQ+ Founders
Forbes
8 min read · 20 saves · Dec 10th · While not all of these VCs are 100% focused on funding underrepresented founders, they say they are inclusive and intentional about investing in founders who are women, Black, Indigenous, and/or…
Sifted
Is investing in 'deeptech' a good move for Europe's VCs?
Sifted
3 min read · 19 saves · Dec 16th · Policymakers, VCs and founders in Europe seem to have decided that we need deeptech. We don't — or at least, not for the reasons they think.
The Wall Street Journal
Sizzling Tech IPO Market Leaves Investors Befuddled
The Wall Street Journal
19 saves · Dec 13th · A frenzy has hit the market for newly listed tech stocks, raising concerns about the soaring valuations for fast-growing but often unprofitable companies.
The Information
Airbnb’s Biggest IPO Winners
The Information
1 min read · 10 saves · Dec 7th · Sequoia Capital’s early bet on Airbnb will likely propel it to one of the greatest hauls in the history of venture capital, turning a $260 million investment made over the past 11 years into a stake…
