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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. Outbound used to be painstaking and manual. Outbound used to be painstaking and manual. Not anymore.

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What do you look for an investment? How long should a founder be without salary? And other Q&A

Andrew Chen

What distribution channels should a new consumer internet startup consider in 2019? What is your advice for startup CEOs? Same for social networks before Facebook, or there were more than a dozen investor-backed search engines before Google. So when a new startup purports to create new consumer behavior, I’m sometimes skeptical.

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What do you look for an investment? How long should a founder be without salary? And other Q&A

Andrew Chen

What distribution channels should a new consumer internet startup consider in 2019? What is your advice for startup CEOs? Same for social networks before Facebook, or there were more than a dozen investor-backed search engines before Google. So when a new startup purports to create new consumer behavior, I’m sometimes skeptical.