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What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what.

Andrew Chen

Is there still room for marketplace startups to innovate? Am excited to share a vision on the past and future of the service economy, in a collaboration by my a16z colleague Li Jin. The “Uber for X” Era (2009-). [Dear readers, this essay is on the future of marketplaces. We answer, emphatically, yes!

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Learning from Failure: Product Manager Style

The Product Coalition

The developer refused, sticking to his original vision. Thanks to the success of the original Peek, TwitterPeek was released shortly after in 2009 receiving a much frostier reception. John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup What can we learn? Check out our certifications here.

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Why Aren’t We Better at XP (or Almost Anything)? “Stop Making It Harder”

Johanna Rothman

A couple of jobs later, in 1982, I worked on a machine vision product. The company was a startup and strapped for cash, enough people, everything.). In 2009, after an inner ear hemorrhage , I have several handicaps: constant vertigo, and single-sided deafness. I'm pretty sure there's no XP certification.