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Exponential growth devours and corrupts
"So it remains mostly our fault. Our choice, our dollars. Every purchase a vote for an ever more dysfunctional future. We will spend our way into the abyss."
Technology imitates art
A conversational interface placed within an article about conversational interfaces. Could it get more meta?
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Modern Entrepreneurship
Why we did not become ‘the new Spotify’
Interesting postmortem on why Popped, a music service, failed to succeed. Probably fairly unknown, but we love to celebrate any founder that shares their lessons learned.
The obscure economic idea behind SaaS pricing challenges
SAAS economics does not seem to work like traditional economics where a lower price gives more demand. It also does not follow the luxury goods economics where a higher price gets you more demand. It seems to be a hybrid model.
Growth
You should kill your cash cow
Awesome piece on why you need a company culture that is willing to reinvent itself.
Trends
Finance
Why we choose profit
"Having a profitable business doesn’t mean squeezing the lemon for every last bitter drop. It isn’t all or nothing. You can be profitable and generous. Profitable and fair. Profitable and kind. These aren’t opposite ends of some moral spectrum. Quite the contrary."
How Do I Feel About the Snap IPO Given I Didn’t Invest?
"My job as a VC isn’t to beat myself up or any other partner up for the one deal we didn’t do. My job is simply to make sure we’re getting into a few industry defining investments per fund and to make sure we capture enough successes. If you swing at every pitch you’ll end up with a lot more losers."
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Thank you for finishing issue #109 & credits
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