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Top 100 fastest growing categories in ecommerce. Yes, ābread machinesā is #2
Top 100 fastest growing categories in ecommerce. Yes, ābread machinesā is #2
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Using chatGPT for travel planning is š¤Æš¤Æš¤Æš¤Æ.
āMake me a detailed day by day itinerary for a road trip from X to Y emphasizing small towns and natureā
āFor day 2, make an hourly itinerary with breaks for meals, coffee, and sightseeing. Give multiple options for foodā
And try giving it constraints on amount of driving per day, number of stops, specific places you want to stop, etc. Itās really incredible.
Try itā¦
āMake me a detailed day by day itinerary for a road trip from X to Y emphasizing small towns and natureā
āFor day 2, make an hourly itinerary with breaks for meals, coffee, and sightseeing. Give multiple options for foodā
And try giving it constraints on amount of driving per day, number of stops, specific places you want to stop, etc. Itās really incredible.
Try itā¦
Marketplace 100!
Here's a16z's list of the largest and fastest-growing consumer-facing marketplace startups and private companies -- using credit card data from our friends at Second Measure.
The essay lives here:
https://lnkd.in/gEEFn7U
Cc Andreessen Horowitz
Here's a16z's list of the largest and fastest-growing consumer-facing marketplace startups and private companies -- using credit card data from our friends at Second Measure.
The essay lives here:
https://lnkd.in/gEEFn7U
Cc Andreessen Horowitz
Preview of the new a16z digs - in South beach (Soma, in San Francisco! Not Miami)
Getting ready to go back to the office!
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Via Chris Dixon
Getting ready to go back to the office!
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Via Chris Dixon
Big news from a16z:
we've raised $4.5B in new funds across an early stage and growth fund. Boom!
investing it in seed/A/B/C/D/.... all the stages! But for me, the earlier the better
the firm's 185 people now, supporting all of our startups
Areas I'm looking:
- passion economy and new forms of work. Lots of new ways to make money online, particularly the move towards video/ZOOM. āSubstack for Xā as well
- new social platforms. Audio, video, etc etc.
- games. New MMOs, esports, built by ex-Riot/Blizzard/Epic teams
Other things that make a startup pop -- I wrote about magic metrics that impress me regardless of area:
https://lnkd.in/g8ScpqD
The last year for startups have been incredibly busy and I've been very active. 2021 and beyond will be the same!
we've raised $4.5B in new funds across an early stage and growth fund. Boom!
investing it in seed/A/B/C/D/.... all the stages! But for me, the earlier the better
the firm's 185 people now, supporting all of our startups
Areas I'm looking:
- passion economy and new forms of work. Lots of new ways to make money online, particularly the move towards video/ZOOM. āSubstack for Xā as well
- new social platforms. Audio, video, etc etc.
- games. New MMOs, esports, built by ex-Riot/Blizzard/Epic teams
Other things that make a startup pop -- I wrote about magic metrics that impress me regardless of area:
https://lnkd.in/g8ScpqD
The last year for startups have been incredibly busy and I've been very active. 2021 and beyond will be the same!
When San Francisco looks like Santa Monica š
Itās 85F and sunny - the real question to ask, will this negatively impact startup productivity?!! Jk.
Either way; amazing weather for SF Tech Week to kick off!
Itās 85F and sunny - the real question to ask, will this negatively impact startup productivity?!! Jk.
Either way; amazing weather for SF Tech Week to kick off!
There was a generation of founders trying to add social to everything
Social and music. Social fitness. Social news. Social social social. There were new kinds of creation, profiles, etc.
No, Iām not talking about today. I mean 15 years ago.
Thereās a lost art of Web 2.0
Web 2.0 was about a lot of things. There was big UX breakthroughs, like tagging, profiles, feeds, photos, and everything else in user generated content. This was built on AJAX (lol!), Rails, early cloud platforms, and so on
New apps were being built in weeks - but most failed
It wasnāt enough to build the app, you needed to also grow a critical mass of users
With ideas like wait list hacks, A/B tested invite flows, contact importers, āpeople you may knowā algos. Embedded video widgets, Facebook platform API hacks, viral factor tracking, and so on.
15 years later, social is back
But much of the hard won lessons of web 2.0 have been lost
The folks of that era are in their 40s now - more likely to be investors or execs at big tech cos (you know who you are! Lol) - than the new gen founders trying to build the new social app
Of course history will not repeat itself - itāll all be reinvented
Building social in the shadow of the big social apps presents drawbacks, and opportunities too. New apps can be reactive, creating authenticity and real relationships in a content landscape thatās fake
Everything is now mobile-first - a clear evolution of web 2.0. Itās all about Testflight, push notifs, mobile phone contacts. Maybe you donāt need feeds or profiles - maybe just swipe through and the algo figures it out. Messaging is more core. Btw, tagging never worked anyway :)
Yet many of the same core strategies still hold. Itās still better to focus on a single community, gain saturation, before adding adjacent networks. Viral loops are still a thing that can be constructed, measured, and optimized. The core stickiness of an app is all about p/m fit
Web 2.0 was a magical time with 1000s of new social apps
Todayās resurgence is comparable in scope, but with a larger maret, built on the supercomputer in our pockets, and with the full knowledge of how big it can be when everything goes right.
Itās gonna be magic again.
Social and music. Social fitness. Social news. Social social social. There were new kinds of creation, profiles, etc.
No, Iām not talking about today. I mean 15 years ago.
Thereās a lost art of Web 2.0
Web 2.0 was about a lot of things. There was big UX breakthroughs, like tagging, profiles, feeds, photos, and everything else in user generated content. This was built on AJAX (lol!), Rails, early cloud platforms, and so on
New apps were being built in weeks - but most failed
It wasnāt enough to build the app, you needed to also grow a critical mass of users
With ideas like wait list hacks, A/B tested invite flows, contact importers, āpeople you may knowā algos. Embedded video widgets, Facebook platform API hacks, viral factor tracking, and so on.
15 years later, social is back
But much of the hard won lessons of web 2.0 have been lost
The folks of that era are in their 40s now - more likely to be investors or execs at big tech cos (you know who you are! Lol) - than the new gen founders trying to build the new social app
Of course history will not repeat itself - itāll all be reinvented
Building social in the shadow of the big social apps presents drawbacks, and opportunities too. New apps can be reactive, creating authenticity and real relationships in a content landscape thatās fake
Everything is now mobile-first - a clear evolution of web 2.0. Itās all about Testflight, push notifs, mobile phone contacts. Maybe you donāt need feeds or profiles - maybe just swipe through and the algo figures it out. Messaging is more core. Btw, tagging never worked anyway :)
Yet many of the same core strategies still hold. Itās still better to focus on a single community, gain saturation, before adding adjacent networks. Viral loops are still a thing that can be constructed, measured, and optimized. The core stickiness of an app is all about p/m fit
Web 2.0 was a magical time with 1000s of new social apps
Todayās resurgence is comparable in scope, but with a larger maret, built on the supercomputer in our pockets, and with the full knowledge of how big it can be when everything goes right.
Itās gonna be magic again.