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What Do You Really Need: In-House Team, Outsourcing or a Tech Partner?

The Product Coalition

The history of Slack, the most widely used workplace messaging app, is often referred to as a classic startup success story. Six months after the release in September 2012, the company had to shut down the game servers and admit it couldn’t compete with other online RPGs that already had sustainably growing fan communities and profits.

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Smart Glass Product Review – Jio Glass, Apple Glass, Google Glass, Etc.

The Basics of Product Management

It was launched with a lot of fanfare in 2012 with commercial availability by mid-2013. Based on an effective product feedback loop , Google Glass enterprise edition 2 was launched in mid 2019. But, the Google Glass never really captured the user imagination. The wearable tech didn’t really take off.

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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included!

Andrew Chen

Growing startups and evaluating startups share common skills. Earlier this year, I joined Andreessen Horowitz as a General Partner, where I focus on a broad spectrum of consumer startups: marketplaces, entertainment/media, and social platforms. 3) And finally, to prioritize and make decisions that impact the future.

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Building the Future of Founder Wellbeing with Kelly Fitzsimmons

DISQO

An active angel investor, she serves on the technology committee for BELLE USA , a venture fund that invests in women-led startups. There’s a lot of unchecked assumptions about how businesses are created, and how startups are successful, and unfortunately, almost always, it comes with a tremendous amount of founder sacrifice.

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Building the Future of Founder Wellbeing with Kelly Fitzsimmons

DISQO

An active angel investor, she serves on the technology committee for BELLE USA , a venture fund that invests in women-led startups. There’s a lot of unchecked assumptions about how businesses are created, and how startups are successful, and unfortunately, almost always, it comes with a tremendous amount of founder sacrifice.

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

And so after a few more years doing that, I left and joined a startup. At the same time, I was doing a bunch of startup advisor work. Our best customers at the time were Silicon Valley startups, and the reason they were the best was that the dollar was significantly out-performing the euro. Karen: That’s a good value prop.

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

Andrew Chen

I’m looking for startups that can change the game there. We’re interested in investing in the next wave of consumer products and startups coming into the ecosystem, and that includes the audio ecosystem. In 2007, the first iPhone was introduced, but it wouldn’t be until 2012 that Apple created the Podcasts app.