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Choosing Your North Star Metric
Lenny Rachitsky
How to decide the guiding metrics for every type of business, based on a survey of employees at over 40 of today's most successful growth-stage companies.
A Practical Guide to NFT Memberships for Creators
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Benefits and challenges of NFT memberships as a monetization channel, how creators are using them in practice, and more.
Cilium, Service Meshes, and the Future of Enterprise Networking
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Isovalent co-founder and Cilium creator Thomas Graf discusses the state of cloud native networking and where the future of enterprise Kubernetes lies.
All about Network Effects
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What is a network effect? How do we untangle the nuances of ‘network effects’ with ‘marketplaces’ and ‘platforms’? What’s the difference between network effects, virality, supply-side economies of scale?
The Power of Product Thinking
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Developing product thinking is not just for designers and PMs. Anyone in the business of building products or understanding trends can use this framework.
The Overlooked Levels of the Creator Economy
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Are creator platforms enabling the 99 percent to chase their childhood dreams? Or are they helping the stars of the 0.1 percent expand their wealth?
Building for the 99% Developers
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Effectively building and buying software means understanding that most developers work with legacy code, slow processes, and a mishmash of frameworks.
What We Learned Doing Fast Grants
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We launched an abnormally fast source of emergency science funding during COVID-19. The results revealed the strength and weakness in current funding models.
Why Developers Are Building So Many Side Projects
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From unleashing creativity to mitigating risk, Ben Stokes of Tiny Projects shares some of the main reasons why developers are building so many side projects.
What the Merge Means for Ethereum
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The Ethereum Foundation's Danny Ryan discusses how the Merge will increase security and explains how proof of stake impacts developers.
Jason Fried on Why He Doesn't Do Planning or Politics at Work
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The Basecamp and HEY founder discusses the power of short-term thinking, his framework for startup longevity, and the key thing he looks for when hiring remote.
How to Build a GPT-3 for Science
Josh Nicholson
A GPT-3-like AI model for science would accelerate innovation and improve reproducibility. Creating it will require us to unlock scientific publications.
Rethinking Equity Compensation: From Lottery Ticket to Financial Wedge
Niya Dragova
Smart equity management strategies for employees with RSUs or stock options, a future-forward vision for companies, and a wish-list for builders.
The Case for 'Developer Experience'
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No code, SaaS, APIs have led to faster yet more heterogeneous systems: developers work in rainforests, not planned gardens.
Community ≠ Marketing: Why We Need Go-to-Community, Not Just Go-to-Market
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In a world where software is no longer sold, but rather adopted, community isn't just part of go-to-market; it's a distinct competency: go-to-community.
The Future of Search Is Boutique
Sari Azout
The way to improve search is not to mimic Google, but instead to build boutique search engines that index, curate, and organize things in new ways.
In Online Ed, Content Is No Longer King—Cohorts Are
Wes Kao
Consumers pay for what’s scarce. And within the crowded, cheap, content-rich world of online education, what's scarce is community.
Why We Crave Software With Style Over "Branding"
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Modern software’s uniformity has fueled a craving for more interesting, personalized, opinionated tools — turning inanimate pixels into something with soul.
Inside Latin America’s Creator Economy: Rich in Influence, Poor in Cash
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Though LatAm leads the world in internet and digital media consumption, its creators still struggle to cash in on their influence. That presents an opportunity.
A Startup's Guide to Launching College Ambassador Programs
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This 101 guide on college ambassador programs for consumer startup covers the what, why, and when, how to get started, incentive structures, metrics, and more.
Why Applying Machine Learning to Biology is Hard – But Worth It
Jimmy Lin and Nicole Neuman
Computational genomics pioneer Jimmy Lin explains what many machine learning-focused biotech companies and get wrong about hiring, data, and communication.
Grow or Die: A Framework for Turning Your Company Around Fast
Michael Mignano
When your back's against the wall, you need a high stakes, focusing goal that instills a sense of urgency and clarity.
Unbundling Digital Identity Unlocks New Ways to Play and Build
Jon Radoff
Technologies such as avatars and digital wallets are unbundling our digital identities and rebundling them in new ways.
What's After Proof of Stake for Ethereum?
Danny Ryan and Jeff Benson
Danny Ryan details the path forward for scalability and explains the possibility of stateless Ethereum, while sharing how the Merge will affect future upgrades.
The Average American Would Pay $242,000 For One Extra Year of Good Health
Andrew Scott
New economic research supports a shift from the pursuit of longevity at all costs to a focus on healthspan: more healthy time over the duration of one’s life.
Why SQL Needs Software Libraries
George Fraser and Derrick Harris
Fivetran CEO George Fraser discusses the lack of software libraries for SQL, and how enabling them through a platform like dbt could change data analysis.
Law As Code: A Legal System Shaped By Software
Joshua Browder
With a software-first approach, we can improve transparency, automate tedious processes, and in some cases, even avoid the need for costly lawyers altogether.
What Is Negative Engineering?
Jeremiah Lowin
Negative engineering is the time-consuming and sometimes frustrating work that engineers undertake to ensure the success of their primary objectives.
The Iron Man Model: How Startups and the Military Can Work Together
Jeff Decker
In order to create Iron Man-like innovations, defense tech startups must optimally engage the Pentagon instead of treating it as just another customer.
A Guide to Decentralized Biotech
Jocelynn Pearl
Shared lab space, collaborative projects, DAO-funded research, and other signs of big structural change in this traditionally centralized industry.
The Rise of Domain Experts in Deep Learning
Jeremy Howard and Derrick Harris
Jeremy Howard of fast.ai discusses the impacts of deep learning and AI now being accessible to people without PhDs in those spaces.
Research Twice, Build Once: How to Know Your Users as You Grow
Ryan Glasgow
Sprig founder and CEO Ryan Glasgow explains why the key to building successful products is understanding your users and what they want.
The Creator Economy Comes for Gaming
Joost van Dreunen
Players are discovering new ways to monetize, whether by building original game worlds, selling in-game goods on the blockchain, or engaging new streamer tools.
The Untapped Potential of Less
Leidy Klotz
To harness the untapped power of subtraction in the future, we need to understand why we haven’t embraced it in the past.
Global Shipping Infrastructure and the Ever Given
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The world watched when a container ship blocked the Suez Canal. Amid a frenzy of global trade demand, the world’s shipping infrastructure is starting to break.
Hopper CEO on Super-App Ambitions and Becoming an Everything Startup
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A Q&A with founder Fred Lalonde on building for Gen Z, unbundling luxury travel, motivations for social behavior, and more.
Did We Overeat on Software?
Andrej Safundzic
Lumos CEO Andrej Safundizc explains why companies that use SaaS wisely have a competitive advantage over those that blindly consume it.
The Music Industry Is Built on Artists, but Shuns Creators
Dave Edwards
If the music business can revise its draconian approach to copyright, modding, and UGC, it will empower tech startups to do for audio what TikTok did for video.
The Silicon in Silicon Valley, Again
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Software is fashionable, but we need more than software to reshape our physical world. To build more, we have to prize manufacturing as more meaningful work.
Will It Scale? Applying Data, Science, and Economics to the Art of Ideas
John List and Derrick Harris
Walmart Chief Economist John List on using data analysis and the scientific method to bridge the gap between idea and successful venture.
How Data Rights Stifle Innovation in the DoD (and How to Fix Them)
Babak Siavoshy
The Defense Department would benefit from a new category of data rights for software. The current approach is incompatible with modern software practices.
Well-Behaved Bubbles Often Make History
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The right kind of bubble brings together the right group of people at the right time — it's a coordinating mechanism that can do a surprising amount of good.
Sales Enablement: The Underrated Cog of Enterprise Commercial Engines
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Sales enablement — the use of people, processes, and tech to improve sales productivity — is key for a well-oiled, agile, and high-performing sales machine.
How Recommendation Algorithms Actually Work
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The author of Instagram's original ranking algorithm explains how social platforms pick content for users and why sharing more experiments could improve trust.
What's Next for Creator Platforms? Learning to Sell
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In the rush to build frictionless payment features, the actual pitch—"here's why you should pay and here's what you're getting"—is too often an afterthought.
How to Make Talent Scouts Work for You
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This excerpt from from Talent, by Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross, focuses on how scouts can be useful for identifying talented entrepreneurs and employees.
The New Market Momentum: Reading the Technical Indicators
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Given the emergence of new forms of unpredictability, mathematical indicators that can isolate breakouts and trend shifts are crucial.
What Synthetic Embryos Can and Can't Do, Now and in the Future
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Caltech Professor Magda Zernicka-Goetz explains recent progress in building 'synthetic' embryos from stem cells, their applications, and what they can't do.
The Future of Kidtech: A Web Browser for the Under-10 Set
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Our narrow view of “kidtech”—games and shows, ad infinitum—is a missed opportunity. There’s room for an audio-visual browser that's purpose-built for kids.
The Brazen Strategy Behind China Tech’s Growth
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Taking a page from China's relentless willingness to experiment with core apps.
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Widely accessible design tools like Figma and Canva force experienced designers to adopt new roles: project manager, systems architect, and user advocate.
Data50: The World’s Top 50 Data Startups
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The decade of data is here, as shown by bellwether startups across the most exciting categories, like AI/ML, ELT and orchestration, and data observability.
Can 'Community Composability' Help Web2 Users Make the Jump to Web3?
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Does widespread web3 adoption hinge on simplifying the onboarding process? Not necessarily. Here's another idea to get the crypto-curious in the door.
To Start Building a Community, Master These Two Concepts
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While many founders are eager to invest in community, they often don't know what they’ll need to know to build one the right way.
The World Needs a New Protocol for Global Travel
Parag Khanna
The passport of the future should be an app based on skills and health rather than nationality. This can boost opportunities for billions of people.
Future - What's Next?
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Welcome to Future, a place to make sense of, well, the future as technology changes the way we work, live, and play.
The Key to Enterprise Sales Is Understanding Enterprises
Gary Hoberman and Derrick Harris
Unqork founder and CEO Gary Hoberman, who spent decades managing Wall Street IT budgets, gives advice for B2B startups getting started with enterprise sales.
Speculation is Necessary. Governments Can Help.
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Instead of trying to eradicate speculative manias, we should channel investors’ innate affinity for speculation into productive ventures.
Crypto/Web3 So Far in 2022
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Seven pieces that cover some of the big ideas, movements, and research areas in crypto and web3 over the last several months.
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