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- The personal AI proof engineer | Morph2 savers
- Wander: The Story of a Failed Student Start-up | by Wander | Medium2 savers
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- The Backdoors. - by Joss - box.16 savers
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- AI startups: Sell work, not software5 savers
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- How To Validate Product Ideas Before (And After) Building Them4 savers
- The Big Ideas Tech Will Tackle in 2023: An a16z Omnibus4 savers
- The 5 Phases of Figma’s Community-Led Growth: From Stealth to Enterprise | First Round Review3 savers
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“Josh gave him a vision
The New World - ColossusThe goal for founders could be to build the next tech-powered McDonald's, not the next Toast.
TidemarkSemantic Observability
ConvictionBy leveraging Gen AI, organizations can improve their application security posture by identifying vulnerabilities more quickly and accurately, as well as generating relevant fix solutions more efficiently.
SoundBytes - ScaleUp:AIthere’s an opportunity to forge an integrated developer toolchain for the more security/privacy conscious companies who will be hesitant to rely so heavily on a single vendor.
AI coding will unlock the next wave of developer productivity and reshape the software supply chain | Insight PartnersHowever, the real value will still accrue to the companies who own the workflow engine.
Financial Services Will Embrace Generative AI Faster Than You Think | Andreessen HorowitzFirst, technology companies serving specific verticals must work to generate proprietary, industry-wide datasets. If you can provide unique insights to your end customers which help them increase their revenues or decrease cost, that will ultimately provide a high degree of differentiation and competitive moat.
The Rise of Vertical AI | by Paris Heymann | Index VenturesThe high labor cost in fields like risk assessment creates a compelling economic argument for automation. Tasks ranging from contract drafting to analyzing large sets of financial data could benefit from AI integration, especially given the complex regulatory landscape and high stakes of managing money.
Generative AI in Vertical SaaS: Lessons from Reviewing 1,000 Companies | by Ardent Venture Partners | Sep, 2023 | Mediumaiding businesses in compliance
Generative AI in Vertical SaaS: Lessons from Reviewing 1,000 Companies | by Ardent Venture Partners | Sep, 2023 | MediumThe Tireless (Junior) Financial Analyst
ConvictionNew entrants, on the other hand, may initially have to use public financial data to train their models, but they will quickly start generating their own data and grow into using AI as a wedge for new product distribution.
Financial Services Will Embrace Generative AI Faster Than You Think | Andreessen HorowitzA loan officer would likely still be required to ensure 100% accuracy, but their data-gathering process would be much more efficient and accurate.
Financial Services Will Embrace Generative AI Faster Than You Think | Andreessen HorowitzDistributed Team Representation
ConvictionThe two categories the study emphasized were contracts and statutory language. And it makes sense why those would be where you would start. They’re both notably long and complicated.
Legal writing in focus - Harvard Law School | Harvard Law SchoolRather than drafting from scratch, lawyers draft M&A agreements starting from a template (typically, an agreement for a prior deal), so their effort is limited to choosing which terms to edit and tailor (and how much).
The Value of M&A DraftingHowever, startups must navigate finding champions and validate lawyers’ willingness to change personal workflows & ultimately pay for large efficiency gains.
How to make history with LLMs & other generative modelsI’m referring to here are more likely to be assisted than fully automated in the near-term. These knowledge workers will essentially be paying such startups for small (but growing!) tasks to be completed inside of their complicated day-to-day workloads.
How to make history with LLMs & other generative modelsconsumer payments and lending, provider practice enablement, and insurance.
The big ideas that fintech will tackle in 2022 (December 2021 Fintech Newsletter) | Andreessen HorowitzBeyond Payments For High-Risk Industries
Generative AI is Coming for Insurance (May 2023 Fintech Newsletter) | Andreessen HorowitzThe Opportunity for Healthcare and Fintech
Generative AI is Coming for Insurance (May 2023 Fintech Newsletter) | Andreessen HorowitzThe best startups we fund come to office hours to talk about their product, how to evolve it, how to grow faster, and excited to show us new features their users want.
How things get done - Sam Altmanrestraint is critical.
How things get done - Sam AltmanConverting Conscious Nonconsumers is a matter of providing viable and easy-to-find options — and making the value proposition clear.
How Brands Can Sell to Environmentally Conscious Nonconsumers“Do the work to make sure you are building a product that people will actually find valuable. That requires an incredibly deep understanding of the user, their hopes, and their motivations, instead of taking the easier path of operating off of untested assumptions.”
12 Frameworks for Finding Startup Ideas — Advice for Future Founders | First Round ReviewThe Industrial Economy Goes Digital
The Big Ideas Tech Will Tackle in 2023: An a16z OmnibusThe Biggest Company in the World
The Big Ideas Tech Will Tackle in 2023: An a16z OmnibusTech Reveals New Sources of Inventory
The Big Ideas Tech Will Tackle in 2023: An a16z OmnibusEarly on Ramp saw the advantage of having an integrated card program and expense management software.
Report: Ramp Business Breakdown & Founding StoryKeith Rabois, who invested in DoorDash, Affirm, and Stripe, and led several funding rounds for Ramp, said, “Ramp’s product velocity is absolutely unprecedented in my 21 years working with technology businesses.” That product velocity funnels into a suite of products Ramp describes as helping companies (1) start (cards, expense management, and bill pay), (2) scale (manage expenses policies and visibility), (3) streamline (accounting automation and integration, and (4) save (both time and money)
Report: Ramp Business Breakdown & Founding StoryNotion has taken off over the past few years because of how flexible and user-friendly it is—it’s essentially a powerful sandbox where teams can build any systems they need without having to code or connect dozens of tools.
How Notion Built A $2B SaaS Startup Through Community & TemplatesAt the same time, Airbnb reduces disintermediation by withholding host data, such as listing address or phone number, until the payment is made.
Trust and Platform Disintermediation - Platform PapersIf the team members had spoken to customers at the outset or tested a true MVP, they could have designed their first product in ways that conformed more closely to market needs.
Why Start-ups Failhe acknowledged skipping this crucial step. He and his team failed to conduct up-front research to validate the demand for a matching engine or the appeal of the wingman concept. Nor did they conduct MVP tests akin to Quincy’s trunk shows. Instead they rushed to launch Wings as a fully functional product.
Why Start-ups FailMake sure that the things you're pursuing are weird things that you want to pursue, not whatever the standard path is
Advice · Patrick CollisonI believe that it’s easier to do a hard startup than an easy startup. People want to be part of something exciting and feel that their work matters.
How To Be SuccessfulSelling what you truly believe in feels great, and trying to sell snake oil feels awful.
How To Be SuccessfulFonts should have -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased applied for better legibility
Web Interface GuidelinesThis document outlines a non-exhaustive list of details that make a good (web) interface. It is a living document, periodically updated based on personal learnings
Web Interface GuidelinesI have a strange relationship with time. On one hand, I have time anxiety: the fear that time will pass too quickly and I’ll run out of time. On the other hand, there are times when I am bored, wishing time will pass more quickly to the next eventful event.
Winnie Lim » my strange relationship with timeThe friction to joining a Slack community is low, but the friction to forgetting about a Slack community is also low. We wanted to build the muscle memory of logging into a new app, a distinct URL, and commit to creating a community that would justify this new habit.
A Founder’s Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Your First 1,000 Community Members | First Round ReviewWhy would link sharing enable social interactions more than other social apps? Instagram is primarily built around sharing images of life experiences instead of nuanced ideas with your network. Facebook is riddled with clickbait, polarization, and an audience so broad that it is impossible to share ideas requiring any context. Twitter is better but only encourages the sharing of novel thoughts. Most discussions we have with our networks are not producing novel ideas, so they would never get shared on Twitter.
Wander: The Story of a Failed Student Start-up | by Wander | MediumBut Slack successfully infiltrated companies by word of mouth, sneaking past IT departments as workers quietly downloaded the software. Paid accounts followed, and demand built up so fast that, once released to the public in February of 2014, the company hit $1 million in annual recurring revenue within 72 hours. Slack became the fastest-growing enterprise software the world had ever seen. The rest--from the 2019 IPO to the $27 billion sale to Salesforce in 2020--is history.
Slack's Stewart Butterfield on Getting to $1 Million in 72 Hours | Inc.comAt its bare bones, Facebook is a sophisticated contact book whose true power comes from the people you’ve accumulated over the years. To achieve similar staying power and deep network effects, the winners to emerge will need to have a combination of: Creative distribution strategies to overcome the cold start problem Ability to change someone’s behavior and make it permanently sticky Potential to win the vertical via network effects and expand to more than one use case
The Unbundling of Facebook. Why vertical social platforms will… | by Isabelle Zhou | Jan, 2023 | MediumInstead, I believe you can more efficiently run a number of MVTs, create a vision for a product that fits a market and then go into a “build phase.”
The Minimum Viable Testing Process for Evaluating Startup Ideas | First Round ReviewTop seven strategies to acquire your first 1,000 users Go where your target users are, offline Go where your target users are, online Invite your friends Create FOMO in order to drive word-of-mouth Leverage influencers Get press Build a community pre-launch
How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 usersSlack We begged and cajoled our friends at other companies to try it out and give us feedback. We had maybe six to ten companies to start with that we found this way. The pattern was to share Slack with progressively larger groups. We amplified the feedback we got at each stage by adding more teams.
How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 usersKey question: Who are your early target users, and where they currently congregating online?
How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 usersSuccessful SaaS Starts As More Service Than Software It often takes weeks or months of work to get software from a blank Git repository to the point where it independently creates enough value to charge for. (Obviously, in many problem domains it can take substantially longer.) You can get better results faster at lower cost by not rushing straight to a 100% software solution, but instead implementing a service model with a bit of software embedded in it. For example, rather than saying "I'll build a SaaS with 3 payment plans which will manage your QSR's hiring process", try selling "I'll hand…
How To Validate Product Ideas Before (And After) Building ThemWrite Text Before You Write Code Do you want to earn a living as a programmer? Great. Google is hiring. Do you want to run a software business? Assume that you're going to either get really good at writing or become the employer of someone who is, because writing is about as good as software code for capturing an ephemeral idea in a reproducible artifact, but vastly easier to iterate on. Before you write a single line of code, start verifying that you can connect to the target audience and their understanding of the problem. If you can't write Why Hiring For QSRs Is Broken then you have absolu…
How To Validate Product Ideas Before (And After) Building ThemThis type of content nugget may have hit its own saturation point as we turn to platforms with a more personalized & authentic feel.
The Unbundling of Facebook. Why vertical social platforms will… | by Isabelle Zhou | Jan, 2023 | Medium