Gumroad’s founder shares what he’s learned about strategy, product, and growth.
What does the future hold for readers and writers on Twitter?
A guide to the “right way” (discounted cash flow analysis), and why “everything is dumb right now.”
Is being Sequoia actually pretty easy?
A new conduit for knowledge of business strategy
Three reasons why RSS still dominates in audio, but not text.
On launching and learning
Commoditizing tweets’ complement (the algorithm) will increase usage and rebuild trust
A conflict of interest
An exclusive excerpt from a16z general partner Andrew Chen’s new book, The Cold Start Problem
Strategy’s most famous theory could be wrong
A guide to Porter’s “Five Forces” framework—through the lens of Spotify
A friendly rebuttal
How and why early-stage startups sacrifice growth for power
I hope it becomes a new paradigm for the creator economy
My chapter-by-chapter summary, with notes and reactions
It’s not like war, but it’s not like art class, either.
Jesse Beyroutey, partner at IA Ventures, on why some companies achieve dominance while others get bogged down.
Building your v1
And does it matter?
Businesses plateau for two reasons: Their strategy is wrong (Wrong Strategy Syndrome) They fail to execute any strategy at all (Fuzzy Strat
Their new paid podcast feature only makes sense in a world where in-app purchase rules are relaxed.
How to understand the essence of any business
How the Fed accidentally scuttled your Series B, simply explained
