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AI, Blockchain, Web 2.0, and Self Driving Cars

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The most common analogies I’ve been considering with the current wave of generative AI are blockchain, self-driving cars, and Web 2.0. And both founders and investors are grappling with similar questions that were top of mind during early Web 2.0: These questions seem suspiciously familiar, and I wonder if the OG’s of the Web 2.0

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

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As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. Ecommerce has transcended merely shipping a box to your home — it’s about leveraging mobile plus the internet to create an elegant purchasing experience previously unavailable.

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Announcing NextView Operator Guilds

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Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft. As VP of Product at Artsy, Fatma oversees the product organization responsible for product strategy, design, and development of its web and mobile platforms. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft. Go-to-Market Guild.

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4 Dirty Secrets VCs Won’t Admit

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Whether it’s rational or not, it’s really hard to convince an investor that the founders will be great at creating wonderful products if the materials and web presence they put in front of them fall flat.

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The What & Why of Hiring a Great Startup COO

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This is a guest post from Stephano Kim , former co-founder of Web 1.0 The buildup of friction cost from too many failed conversions of opportunities could bleed your company to death, since mobilizing scarce resources to act on them will cost you no matter how big or small. But what do COOs actually do for startups?

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Building for Massive Mobile Success: An Ex-Bleacher Report PM on Creating Their Hit App

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Bleacher Report and Team Stream were always built on the idea of curating information and the best sports stories from across the web. In terms of iterations, we always had a launch coming for mobile and tried to release a new version every three weeks. Second, we thought about curation. Our advantage was that we were source agnostic.

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Be Like Water – A Guiding Principle for Consumer Product

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This is most easily achievable on the main product canvas, such as your mobile or web app when the user is drawn there for an explicit user need. . The less obvious (and harder) challenge is how to extend your presence beyond the primary product canvas. There are two ways to think about this.

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