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Venture Desktop @venturedesktop

4 years ago

New post in Venture Desktop: Happy Sunday! I’ve been slacking a bit on adding to the channel here. Busy week Don't call time on the megacity by Azeem Azhar This aligns more than anything I’ve read with my perspective on the future of cities. People … ift.tt/2yujsAn

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4 years ago

New post in Venture Desktop: The Virtual Economy Still working my way through this piece. Love the design... ift.tt/2yhFXbv ift.tt/3cLHDcd

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4 years ago

New post in Venture Desktop: ift.tt/2XaEWdY ift.tt/3bSj3W8

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4 years ago

New post in Venture Desktop: 11 Notes on McKinsey ift.tt/3bigegw ift.tt/2y8A2Wh

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4 years ago

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4 years ago

New post in Venture Desktop: So what will building new digital third places look like? Here is a simple framework to find ideas, the examples will focus around audio/voice. ift.tt/3dUq7CH

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4 years ago

New post in Venture Desktop: The Playing Field “In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.” ift.tt/2NZNkbw ift.tt/3dMQFG8

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4 years ago

New post in Venture Desktop: Lessons of Greatness: You have to take the Initiative I’m a big fan of audio essays, especially ones like this from Mike Maples of Floodgate where the emotion and passion shines through in the writer/readers voice. Makes it … ift.tt/3dIGpyv

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4 years ago

New post in Venture Desktop: The new economics of higher education The decisions of American families also will choke off out-of-state tuition revenue. Note that about three-quarters of America’s higher education sector, by enrollment, is state schools.… ift.tt/3fIMnBq

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4 years ago

New post in Venture Desktop: Scale and Loyalty (Gavin Baker) An alternate title for this could be The Grand Unified Theory of Internet Economics (Or, why the same laws govern "CAC is the new rent" and "all internet companies become fintech companies"). … ift.tt/2xX74IU

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4 years ago

New post in Venture Desktop: In 2004 a troupe of french officers in training were exploring the famous Paris Catacombs. If you aren't aware, it's a 4.3 mile stretch of dark caverns that sprawl under the city– housing between 6-7 million dead. Most of the… ift.tt/2STvv1b

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4 years ago

New post in Venture Desktop: Interesting story and group here in Paris that I had never heard of. —— #cities ift.tt/2AkLpv7

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4 years ago

New post in Venture Desktop: The Merits of Bottoms Up Investing Testing out a few audio versions of things I’ve written. Would love feedback on whether this format is useful (even if you hate it!) ift.tt/2zoTz4Y ift.tt/3dz40Sh

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4 years ago

New post in Venture Desktop: How Hip-Hop Royalty Found a New Home on Instagram Live What’s unfolded in the weeks since is a wholesale reshuffling of the nature of celebrity. Without the usual systems of amplification and distribution, the very tools of … ift.tt/2Z1lYcj

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4 years ago

New post in Venture Desktop: Tears in the Rain One of my favorite McLuhanisms is a 1964 observation about the rise of the automobile: “The horse has lost its role in transportation but has made a strong comeback in entertainment.” It’s a perfect express… ift.tt/2YNVESE

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4 years ago

New post in Venture Desktop: Authentic contrarians vs consensus contrarians Leon Lin — @Leonlinsx —wrote a great breakdown of this Josh Wolfe interview and tied it into a bunch of other interviews Josh has done to piece together a great perspective on h… ift.tt/2zl7uJt

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4 years ago

New post in Venture Desktop: This version of Warren Buffett (Josh Brown) This is a great piece that captures the feeling of the current moment relative to other times that the market has looked to Omaha for guidance or a steadying hand...summed up in th… ift.tt/3fvge08

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4 years ago

New post in Venture Desktop: Think this is the third Tribe Capital essay I've shared in this channel over the last couple of weeks. A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit ift.tt/2JGRmUb ift.tt/2SFE53i

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4 years ago

New post in Venture Desktop: I’m 13 years old. I don’t miss the other kids who talk out of turn, disrespect teachers and hit one another. Nice essay from an actual student sharing her experience with distance learning during the pandemic. Saw this initi… ift.tt/3dm3JSx

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4 years ago

New post in Venture Desktop: How to Build a Breakthrough Inflections should be understood even before markets. Entrepreneurs who live in the present tend to make the mistake of starting with the market first. They analyze current markets for unsolved p… ift.tt/3b2ak36