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Preamble:This post is a synthesis of some of the things I've learned while serving as an analyst at USV. Were these ideas and observations wholly my own, the title of this post would be "How I succeeded in venture capital". Moreover, this post was inspired by my very recent read of Tim Wu's "The Master Switch", whose ideas I cite liberally. I was a Product Manager at Appsfire and so naturally spent a lot of time looking at apps. As something of a designer, I paid a lot of attention to the fineness of app icons and choices in typography. I knew a lot about how to succeed in the App Store on the basis of design and user experience; I knew too much about how to game or spend your way to the top of the App Store; I didn't know all that much about how startups really succeeded beyond a handful of clichés that most everyone acquired from reading tech rags. At the end of 2014 it came time to write our reports for Q4 and facilitate the audits, which is when I really started to learn a lot. The

Preamble:This post is a synthesis of some of the things I've learned while serving as an analyst at USV. Were these ideas and observations wholly my own, the title of this post would be "How I succeeded in venture capital". Moreover, this post was inspired by my very recent read of Tim Wu's "The Master Switch" , whose ideas I cite liberally. I joined USV out of a company called Appsfire . Appsfire began, in 2010, as an app for discovering apps. We operated on top of the App Store and Google Play Store and helped people discover and consume apps. In 2010, developers were figuring out all the at

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