Venture capital in tech, entertainment, and AI
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BRAINDUMP ON VIRAL LOOPS
Hey all — recently I wrote a three-part brain dump on everything I remember from building viral loops in the Web 2.0 days and some of the ways in which all these ideas have evolved in the mobile era and beyond. I posted it as three parts on...
The Anti-Pitch: When haters hate your startup idea
The optimist has the Pitch, and the skeptic has the Anti-Pitch.
The Pitch — and sometimes we call it the elevator pitch — is sacred inside the tech industry. We pithily describe a new idea, how it works, and why it’ll work. It should only...
Why retention is so hard for new tech products
I’ve been staring at retention curve data for 15-plus years now.
I was a founder, a product manager, and now a VC. And at Andreessen Horowitz, I end up meeting hundreds of startups each year, many of them through our a16z speedrun program,...
AI will change how we build startups -- but how?
Hello!
I’m back in sunny LA until the end of the year. Just announced that applications are now open for a16z speedrun 6 — where we invest up to $1M in brand new startups. I’ll also be hosting a ton of events at SF/LA Tech Week in October...
Lies per Second, Meetings per Decision Ratio, and other important biz metrics
Those of you who have had a dinner conversation with me inevitably know that I love bringing up the measurement of “micromort” and rattling off various dangerous activities and ranking them by risk. Now I get to do this in digital form. OK,...
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