Kazuki Nakayashiki's Highlights on 'Silicon Valley investing legend Ron Conway on the lessons learned from Napster'

Marc Andreessen – Why Andreessen Horowitz Is Investing in Rap Genius

genius.com/Marc-andreessen-why-andreessen-horowitz-is-investing-in-rap-genius-annotated

a16z

Social Annotation

Jun 19, 2021

The Information You’re Exposed to Shapes Who You Are

medium.com/@kazuki_sf_/the-information-youre-exposed-to-shapes-who-you-are-6a1df07ce19d

Curator Economy

Jun 19, 2021

Choosing Your North Star Metric - Future

future.a16z.com/north-star-metrics/

Metrics

Jun 18, 2021

221

Note taking in 2021 - blog.dornea.nu

blog.dornea.nu/2021/06/13/note-taking-in-2021/

Note-taking

Jun 17, 2021

The Ownership Economy: Crypto & The Next Frontier of Consumer Software – Variant

variant.fund/the-ownership-economy-crypto-and-consumer-software/

Crypto

Blockchain

Jun 16, 2021

Why Does Human-Curated Content Matter?

medium.com/@kazuki_sf_/why-does-human-curated-content-matter-663da685d263

Curator Economy

Jun 16, 2021

Technology Saves the World - Future

future.a16z.com/technology-saves-the-world/

a16z

Jun 16, 2021

Finding “Product-Human Need Fit” in the Post-Covid Era

www.forerunnerventures.com/our-perspectives/finding-product-human-need-fit-in-the-post-covid-era

Human Behavior

Jun 16, 2021

Pmarchive - The only thing that matters

pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4.html

PMF

Jun 15, 2021

Growth Frameworks For Your Marketplace

www.nfx.com/post/marketplace-expansion-framework/

Growth

Marketplace

Jun 14, 2021

The Power User Curve: The best way to understand your most engaged users at andrewchen

andrewchen.com/power-user-curve/

Metrics

Retention

Jun 14, 2021

Connor Hailey, Axle Health, on bridging the gap between virtual and physical care

medium.com/wharton-pulse-podcast/connor-hailey-axle-health-on-bridging-the-gap-between-virtual-and-physical-care-96bc9f8827f

Founding Story

Jun 14, 2021

IPOs in 2020 and the IPO Pop

tanay.substack.com/p/ipos-in-2020-and-the-ipo-pop

Jun 14, 2021

Shedding More Light on How Instagram Works

about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/shedding-more-light-on-how-instagram-works

Consumer App

Algorithm

Jun 13, 2021

113

How I Became A Founder: Omneky’s Hikari Senju

fredsoda.medium.com/how-i-became-a-founder-omnekys-hikari-senju-9f0399b357d

Founding Story

Jun 13, 2021

Why I’m Building Glasp?

medium.com/@kazuki_sf_/why-im-building-glasp-20884bb507e1

Purpose

Mission

Glasp

Jun 13, 2021

Transparent Optimism

caseyaccidental.com/transparent-optimism/

Culture

Jun 12, 2021

The Rise of The Curator Economy

medium.com/@kazuki_sf_/the-rise-of-the-curator-economy-5a40ebfe14d

Curator Economy

Jun 11, 2021

How Creativity in Humor, Art, and Science Works: Arthur Koestler’s Theory of Bisociation

www.brainpickings.org/2013/05/20/arthur-koestler-creativity-bisociation/

Psychology

Knowledge

Mental Model

Jun 11, 2021

A New Google

dcgross.com/a-new-google

Community

Jun 11, 2021

Silicon Valley investing legend Ron Conway on the lessons learned from Napster

fortune.com/2020/12/02/ron-conway-sv-angel-napster-google-facebook/

Jun 10, 2021

AARRR Framework- Metrics That Let Your StartUp Sound Like A Pirate Ship

medium.com/@ms.mbalke/aarrr-framework-metrics-that-let-your-startup-sound-like-a-pirate-ship-e91d4082994b

Metrics

User Acquisition

Retention

CAC

Jun 9, 2021

Reducing Product Risk and Removing the MVP Mindset

caseyaccidental.com/product-risk-and-mvp-mindset/

Product Development

Jun 7, 2021

Sharpen Your Ax with Marvin Liao

theentrepreneurethos.com/marvin-liao/

Habit

Jun 7, 2021

You Can Only Maintain So Many Close Friendships

www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/05/robin-dunbar-explains-circles-friendship-dunbars-number/618931/

Relationship

Jun 5, 2021

Team | Pear VC

www.pear.vc/team

Jun 3, 2021

Why Us | Pear VC

www.pear.vc/whyus

Accelerator

Jun 3, 2021

Tech’s Most Unlikely Venture Capitalist

medium.com/@pejmannozad/tech-s-most-unlikely-venture-capitalist-bb002488f297

Founder

Jun 3, 2021

Albert Bandura's Social Learning Theory | Simply Psychology

www.simplypsychology.org/bandura.html

Human Behavior

Learning

Jun 1, 2021

The More You Know The More You Realize You Don't Know

ardalis.com/the-more-you-know-the-more-you-realize-you-dont-know/

Knowledge

May 27, 2021

Advice · Patrick Collison

patrickcollison.com/advice

Founder

Advice

May 26, 2021

121

Scaling Stripe with Patrick Collison — Class 11 Notes of Stanford University’s CS183C

medium.com/notes-essays-cs183c-technology-enabled-blitzscalin/class-11-notes-essay-reid-hoffman-john-lilly-chris-yeh-and-allen-blue-s-cs183c-technology-ebf34cebae26

Founding Story

Founder

May 26, 2021

The guide to advisor shares - Carta

carta.com/blog/advisor-advisory-shares/

Advisor

May 26, 2021

Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on the Creator Economy

constine.substack.com/p/q-and-a-with-mark-zuckerberg-on-the

Creator Economy

May 25, 2021

Poparazzi photo app blows up by banning selfies

constine.substack.com/p/poparazzi-photo-app-blows-up-by-banning

Consumer App

May 25, 2021

121

Let's talk about Luddites

eriktorenberg.substack.com/p/lets-talk-about-luddites

Human Behavior

May 24, 2021

142

How to Get Rich

nav.al/rich

Naval

Human Behavior

Economics

May 23, 2021

How We Got Our First 2,000 Users Doing Things That Don’t Scale

www.fastcompany.com/3024472/how-we-got-our-first-2000-users-doing-things-that-dont-scale

Founding Story

Product Hunt

Growth

May 23, 2021

11 Things I’ve learned from running a micro VC in the last year

elizabethyin.com/2018/07/24/11-things-ive-learned-from-running-a-micro-vc-in-the-last-year/

Investor

May 20, 2021

How to Do Philosophy

paulgraham.com/philosophy.html

Philosophy

May 19, 2021

161

Mean People Fail

paulgraham.com/mean.html

Founder

May 19, 2021

Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit–And You Should Too

hbr.org/2008/05/why-zappos-pays-new-employees

Culture

May 19, 2021

Investing in the Experience Economy

medium.com/lightspeed-venture-partners/investing-in-the-experience-economy-a74197988b64

Economics

May 18, 2021

2021 Edtech Outlook: Where we’ve been and where we’re going

medium.com/lightspeed-venture-partners/2021-edtech-outlook-where-weve-been-and-where-we-re-going-a923dbccbe61

Edtech

May 18, 2021

Healing your co-founder relationship

www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/saving-your-co-founder-relationship

Co-founder

May 18, 2021

112

Building the initial team for seed stage startups at andrewchen

andrewchen.com/building-the-initial-team-for-seed-stage-startups/

May 17, 2021

Better Aligning Value Creation & Value Capture

eriktorenberg.substack.com/p/better-aligning-value-creation-and

Crypto

Economics

May 17, 2021

Digital Kinship: How the Internet Is Reacting to the Loneliness Epidemic

digitalnative.substack.com/p/digital-kinship-how-the-internet

Human Behavior

May 15, 2021

201

First Principles: The Building Blocks of True Knowledge

fs.blog/2018/04/first-principles/

Knowledge

May 14, 2021

Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (~100 Models Explained)

fs.blog/mental-models/

Human Behavior

Psychology

May 14, 2021

281

Product Management Philosophies

kylefox.ca/product-management-philosophies/

Product Development

May 14, 2021