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Growth is getting hard from intensive competition, consolidation, and saturation

Andrew Chen

One of the best essays written last year was Elad Gil’s End of Cycle? – referencing our most recent 2007-2017 run on mobile and web software, and the implications for investing, startups, and entrepreneurs. We’ll look at a couple trends in this essay, including the following: Mobile platform consolidation.

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Make Your Product Stand Out with the Strategy Canvas

Roman Pichler

It was originally intended as a business strategy tool to discover new markets. The dark one represents the value curve of the smartphone industry in 2007; the light one the first iPhone. This means that the first iPhone was clearly differentiated. The Strategy Canvas. When comparing the two lines, we see that the they diverge.

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The Rise & Fall Of Enterprise Software | Bill Janeway, Warburg Pincus | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

There are few people as qualified to talk about the landscape of software investment as Bill Janeway. On joining Venture Capital firm Warburg Pincus in 1988 he built their IT Investment practice, which focussed heavily on Enterprise Software. The Rise And Fall Of Enterprise Software”. Upcoming Events.

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Top 45 Product Marketing Manager Interview Questions

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

They look at listening trends at both the platform level and the individual user level. Spotify reports that millions of listeners took to social media to share their listening habits. Over my career, I've done my best to shape my engineering skills to be able to one day work directly in autonomous vehicle technology.

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

Andrew Chen

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin and including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. After this analysis, I’m looking for really differentiated verticals of audio. but may not directly sound like podcasting. Thanks, Andrew.

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

Andrew Chen

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin, Avery Segal and Bennett Carroccio, including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. After this analysis, I’m looking for really differentiated verticals of audio. Thanks, Andrew.

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The Product Strategy and the Product Life Cycle

Roman Pichler

Take the iPhone as an example, which was first launched in 2007 and whose life has been prolonged multiple times, for instance, by offering new and enhanced features like Face ID as well as different models for different segments. The life cycle model is hence not a predictive tool that forecasts the value a product will generate.