Background Noise
Michael MignanoA place for me to write short posts and long-ish essays about startups, technology, strategy, product, media, and culture.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 36 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 20 days ago |
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Obliterate, Don’t Automate
In 2015, my partner Fred Wilson published a short blog post, Don’t Automate, Obliterate, on how USV thinks about startup investments. The post was based on a 1990 HBR article by Michael Hammer by the same name. Specifically, Fred and the re...
Building With No Constraints
I recently built a fairly complex, fully functional web product using nothing but Claude Fable. The product is well tested, secure, and highly polished. It is also not an MVP. It is feature rich. And it took me only 3 weeks of my time and a...
Startups Are Just Bands
Before I was into startups, I was into music. I grew up playing drums, and played in bands for years. When I was young and people would ask me what I wanted to be, I’d say a rock star. While I never hit it big, I do feel very fortunate that...
One more card
I once met a founder of a new startup through someone I really trusted. My first meeting with the founder was great. I found the person to be deeply thoughtful about product, strategic about the business they were building, and opinionated...
Who picks the model?
The first thing a developer building an AI app does is pick a model. A few weeks after launch, they pick a router.
But it wasn’t always like this. A year ago, most startups picked one model and built everything around it. Today they’re usi...
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