9 Best Articles in 2021
a16z.com
16 Startup Metrics | Andreessen Horowitz
a16z.com
10 min read · From 2015 · We have the privilege of meeting with thousands of entrepreneurs every year, and in the course of those discussions are presented with all kinds of numbers, measures, and metrics that illustrate the…
Mission.org
The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen
Mission.org
8 min read · From 2016 · It’s Zuora’s, and it’s brilliant. Here’s why.
medium.com
Coronavirus: The Black Swan of 2020
medium.com
6 min read · 2020-03-05 · Here is a note that we sent to Sequoia founders and CEOs today to provide guidance on how to ensure the health of their business while…
medium.com
Understanding Customer Acquisition Costs — Growth Hacking, Marketing and Venture Capital
medium.com
5 min read · From 2015 · The framework VCs use
alexanderjarvis.com
Benedict Evans
Presentations — Benedict Evans
Benedict Evans
2020-01-28 · Presentations by Benedict Evans: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, The End of the Beginning and Mobile is Eating the world.
attach.io
Startup Pitch Decks (from real companies)
attach.io
4 min read · From 2016 · A collection of real pitch decks from real startups. In total, these decks have raised over $400 million.
Benedict Evans
Mobile is eating the world
Benedict Evans
1 min read · From 2017 · As we pass 2.5bn smartphones on earth and head towards 5bn, and mobile moves from creation to deployment, the questions change. What's the state of the smartphone, machine learning and 'GAFA', and what can we build as we stand on the shoulders of giants?
Recently popular
Benedict Evans
Metaverse! Metaverse? Metaverse!! — Benedict Evans
Benedict Evans
4 min read · Oct 10th · “Metaverse’ is the buzzword of the moment, yet it doesn’t really exist as more than a label on a whiteboard, and many of the ideas it tries to combine might not happen, or not like that. This might be…
Y Combinator
GitLab from YC to IPO
Y Combinator
4 min read · Oct 14th · We want to congratulate Sid Sijbrandij, Dmitriy Zaporozhets, and the entire GitLab Inc. team on today’s IPO! GitLab Inc., from YC’s Winter 2015 batch, is YC’s first open-source company to go public,…
a16z
Why We Crave Software With Style Over "Branding"
a16z
10 min read · Oct 8th · Modern software’s uniformity has fueled a craving for more interesting, opinionated tools — turning inanimate pixels into something with soul.
schlaf.me
I Just Walked Away From My New Venture Fund. Here’s Why.
schlaf.me
6 min read · Oct 2nd · Photo: Jad Limcaco A week ago I sat down at my computer. Still staring at the blank screen, my heart rate began to spike. The butterflies in my stomach were going wild, and my inner voice started…
TechCrunch
Canva is getting into video
TechCrunch
2 min read · Oct 12th · Canva, the $40 billion software startup looking to make design accessible to everyone, has today announced a video editing suite. Launched in 2013, Canva emerged during the design rennaissance, around…
Business Insider
Meet the 30 solo capitalists writing a lot of checks to startups who every founder should scramble…
Business Insider
~14 min read · Sep 25th · These are the solo capitalists shaking up the venture-capital industry by moving quickly on funding rounds for startups.
Scott Galloway
Jumping the SPAC | No Mercy / No Malice
Scott Galloway
10 min read · Sep 18th · Note: I was not under influence of Zacapa or edibles writing this one … so it’s wonky. Oh well, my blog. A perfect storm may be brewing: tech, software as a service (SaaS), and climate change. My…
