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What 14 startup investors and advisors taught us about chasing (and finding) product-market fit

Mixpanel

There’s a reason, after all, that Y Combinator chose the slogan “make something people want” shortly after they were founded in 2005. For SaaS companies, investor and entrepreneur Elad Gil likes when he sees major brands finding and using a product organically. It makes sense intuitively. And a keyword here is organic.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

In 2005, podcasts were added to the iTunes store, with Steve Jobs saying, “Podcasting is the next generation of radio, and users can now subscribe to over 3,000 free Podcasts and have each new episode automatically delivered over the Internet to their computer and iPod.”. The word was added to the Oxford English Library later that year.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

In 2005, podcasts were added to the iTunes store, with Steve Jobs saying, “Podcasting is the next generation of radio, and users can now subscribe to over 3,000 free Podcasts and have each new episode automatically delivered over the Internet to their computer and iPod.”. The word was added to the Oxford English Library later that year.