9 Best Articles in 2022
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Hidden Networks: Network Effects That Don’t Look Like Network Effects
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~12 min read · From 2019 · Some network effects (when a network gains more value to its users as more people participate in its platform) don’t show up in the usual metrics. Their hidden nature makes them hard to measure – but they can confer significant long-term competitive advantages. In an insightful article for A16Z.com, D’Arcy Coolican – an Andreessen Horowitz partner and a co-founder of the peer-to-peer lending platform Frank – shines a light on hidden networks, giving useful guidelines for identifying when they’re at work.
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Two Powerful Mental Models: Network Effects and Critical Mass
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20+ min read · From 2016 · This post is all about network effects and critical mass. But it’s also about applying those concepts as important mental models in business, so I will share a short story about a business decision I…
TensorFlow
Tensorflow — Neural Network Playground
TensorFlow
2 min read · From 2016 · Tinker with a real neural network right here in your browser.
NFX
The Network Effects Manual: 13 Different Network Effects (and counting)
NFX
20+ min read · From 2018 · The 13 Network Effects & How They Actually Work
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Kickstarting Network Effects
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2 min read · 2021-12-06 · Network effects can be found powering almost every major technology company, from messaging apps and workplace collaboration tools, like Slack and Zoom, to marketplaces, like Airbnb and Instacart to…
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16 Ways to Measure Network Effects
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~14 min read · From 2019 · Network effects are one of the most important dynamics in software and marketplace businesses. But they’re often spoken of in a binary way: either you have them, or you don’t. In practice, most com…
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What Makes Data Valuable: The Truth About Data Network Effects
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10 min read · 2020-02-25 · Data is not inherently valuable. Most data doesn’t produce a real data network effect, and most data network effects aren’t that powerful even once established. Data strategy, in terms of value…
Gabriel Weinberg
Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
Gabriel Weinberg
From 2016 · Update: Since this post came out, I co-authored a book about it called Super Thinking. Get notified about book updates here (currently…
NFX
Your Life is Driven by Network Effects
NFX
20+ min read · From 2020 · What city you live in. Who you date or marry. Which job you choose. What clothes you wear.We all think we make these choices ourselves. It certainly feels like we’re in full control. But it turns out…
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Kickstarting Network Effects
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2 min read · 2021-12-06 · Network effects can be found powering almost every major technology company, from messaging apps and workplace collaboration tools, like Slack and Zoom, to marketplaces, like Airbnb and Instacart to…
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Beyond Metcalfe’s Law for Network Effects, and Towards a Better Model
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7 min read · 2021-11-23 · Metcalfe’s Law persists today in discussions of network effects, yet it is not enough for those in the industry who seek to create, scale, and compete using this powerful force -- the product…
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The Three Systems Beneath Network Effects
Every
8 min read · 2021-12-07 · An exclusive excerpt from a16z general partner Andrew Chen’s new book, The Cold Start Problem
MIT Technology Review
DeepMind says its new language model can beat others 25 times its size
MIT Technology Review
2 min read · 2021-12-08 · RETRO uses an external memory to look up passages of text on the fly, avoiding some of the costs of training a vast neural network
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Beyond Metcalfe’s Law for Network Effects, and Towards a Better Model
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7 min read · 2021-11-23 · Metcalfe’s Law persists today in discussions of network effects, yet it is not enough for those in the industry who seek to create, scale, and compete using this powerful force -- the product…
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The Dynamics of Network Effects
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9 min read · From 2018 · The most successful companies and products of the internet era have all been predicated on the concept of network effects, where the network becomes more valuable to users as more people use it. Th…
The Verge
The next big social network trend? Shortform audio
The Verge
5 min read · 2021-07-16 · Voice notes with viral dreams
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DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
OpenAI
20+ min read · 2021-01-05 · We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.
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gab | The Free Speech Social Network
gab.com
From 2016 · Gab is an ad-free social network dedicated to preserving individual liberty, the freedom of speech, and the free flow of information on the internet.
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AVINOC - Aviation Network Operation Chain
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8 min read · From 2018 · AVINOC - Aviation Network Operation Chain - The Blockchain Solution disrupting the global General Aviation Business
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Come for the tool, stay for the network
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1 min read · From 2015 · A popular strategy for bootstrapping networks is what I like to call “come for the tool, stay for the network.” The idea is to initially attract users with a single-player tool and then, over time,…
MIT Technology Review
The Social-Network Illusion That Tricks Your Mind
MIT Technology Review
6 min read · From 2016 · Network scientists have discovered how social networks can create the illusion that something is common when it is actually rare.
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