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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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Product Channel Fit Will Make or Break Your Growth Strategy

Brian Balfour

LinkedIn is the perfect example where over time they've achieve Product Channel Fit with Virality, UGC SEO, and different forms of Inbound and Outbound Sales. Then in early 2007, social emerged as a new channel with the Facebook platform. Then the social platforms came along and Zoosk and others emerged.