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Read VC blogs—read them all, and read them very very carefully. VCs who blog are doing entrepreneurs a huge service both in conveying highly useful information as well as frequently putting themselves out there to be contacted by entrepreneurs in various ways including email, comments, and even uploaded podcasts.
Pmarchive · “But I don’t know any VCs!”is to work at a venture-backed startup
Pmarchive · “But I don’t know any VCs!”nd then pretend you have already been turned down once
Pmarchive · “But I don’t know any VCs!”any individual VC can only fund a few companies per year,
Pmarchive · “But I don’t know any VCs!”VCs work mostly through referrals
Pmarchive · “But I don’t know any VCs!”And never, ever say your market projections indicate you’re going to be hugely successful if you get only 2% of your (extremely large) market. That also signals naivete.
Pmarchive · When the VCs say “no”Never, ever say that you have no competitors. That signals naivete. Great markets draw competitors, and so if you really have no competition, you must not be in a great market.
Pmarchive · When the VCs say “no”but when it comes to your time, you’re wasteful of the only thing in the world that you should actually be frugal with
Life Is Not ShortIn your mind, you genuinely think you’re going to live forever.
Life Is Not ShortYet looking back on the last decade or two, the most transformative consumer products—and generational changes in behavior—have often been the most difficult to describe. The ones where words escaped us initially.
"Disregard the Words" - EveryHow could I reduce something so new to only a snappy marketing statement?
"Disregard the Words" - Every7. Most esports fans are also fans of traditional sports
The keys to esports marketing: Don’t get ‘ganked’ | McKinsey5. No esports organization is globally dominant, but most have out-of-market fans
The keys to esports marketing: Don’t get ‘ganked’ | McKinsey4. Fan loyalty is split among teams, pro players, and independent streamers
The keys to esports marketing: Don’t get ‘ganked’ | McKinsey3. The most popular streamers are not esports pros
The keys to esports marketing: Don’t get ‘ganked’ | McKinsey10 percent of esports fans report watching over 20 hours per week
The keys to esports marketing: Don’t get ‘ganked’ | McKinseyEsports is now the third-most-popular spectator sport for young men;
The keys to esports marketing: Don’t get ‘ganked’ | McKinseynon-endemic brands such as Arby’s, Coca-Cola, and Mercedes
The keys to esports marketing: Don’t get ‘ganked’ | McKinseyAnyone can participate in building it or investing in it from day one. The company announces the release of x number of tokens, and give 10% to the early builders, put 10% for sale to the public, and set the rest aside for future payment of contributors and funding of the project.
What is Web3? The Decentralized Internet of the Future ExplainedTo get the money, they take on venture capital and give away a percentage of the company. This investment immediately introduces mis-aligned incentives that will, in the long run, not align well with building out the best user experience.
What is Web3? The Decentralized Internet of the Future Explainedthe company is often pushed towards two paths: advertisements or selling personal data.
What is Web3? The Decentralized Internet of the Future ExplainedAt first, many software companies do not worry about monetization. They strictly focus on growth and on locking in new users – but eventually they have to start turning a profit.
What is Web3? The Decentralized Internet of the Future ExplainedYou can think of Web 1.0 as the read-only web.
What is Web3? The Decentralized Internet of the Future ExplainedHere’s how preparing your taxes could work: You sit down, review a prefilled filing from the government. If it’s accurate, you sign it. If it’s not, you fix it or ignore it altogether and prepare your return yourself. It’s your choice. You might not have to pay for an accountant, or fiddle for hours with complex software. It could all be over in minutes.
Filing Taxes Could Be Free and Simple. But H&R Block and Intuit Are Still Lobbying Against It.Historically, gaming has been centralized and gate-kept by in-groups (namely, white men)
Gaming DAOs: A New Way of Coordinating Gaming Communities — NaavikWhile this may sound like a risky proposition from an organizational standpoint (what if the biggest holders all decide to dump their tokens on the open market at once?), it allows freedom to “vote with dollars” and forces the DAO to keep its incentives aligned with those of the token holders. Talk about shareholder value!
Gaming DAOs: A New Way of Coordinating Gaming Communities — Naavikcan be freely bought and sold on secondary markets, giving investors greater access to liquidity than might otherwise be available with equity grants or RSUs. In many cases, there are also no lengthy lock-up periods.
Gaming DAOs: A New Way of Coordinating Gaming Communities — NaavikDAOs have the potential to redistribute ownership of a game amongst an entire community – be it the players, the game’s creators, its investors, community builders, or other participants.
Gaming DAOs: A New Way of Coordinating Gaming Communities — NaavikThe exploitation of whales, where most people play for free, but a few spend a bucketload of money
Whales, True Fans and the Ethics of Free-to-play gamesMetrics-led design,where game designers build games that deliver to a spreadsheet, rather than aim to delight gamers
Whales, True Fans and the Ethics of Free-to-play gamesAn animal is placed in the box where it must learn to activate levers or respond to light or sound stimuli for reward. The reward may be food or the removal of noxious stimuli such as a loud alarm. The chamber is used to test specific hypotheses in a controlled setting.
Operant conditioning chamberWhen it works, those systems are less fragile, anti-fragile even, because of the way everyone is operating in their zone of genius—that area beyond their zone of competence and even their zone of excellence, the thing they most love to do.
Infinite games - Graham Duncan Blog27. Discipline is superior to motivation. The former can be trained, the latter is fleeting. You won’t be able to accomplish great things if you’re only relying on motivation.
100 Tips for a Better Life - LessWrongThings you use for a significant fraction of your life (bed: 1/3rd, office-chair: 1/4th) are worth investing in.
100 Tips for a Better Life - LessWrongSpecifically, the Turkish government covers the commission fees charged by Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store
Why Turkey is becoming the Silicon Valley of mobile gamingTurkey’s gaming industry is mobile-first; few, if any, Turkish game developers focus on major console titles.
Why Turkey is becoming the Silicon Valley of mobile gamingZynga has purchased five Turkey-based developer studios over the past four years, including leading Turkish developers Peak and Rollic
Why Turkey is becoming the Silicon Valley of mobile gamingInformation cascades occur when external information obtained from previous participants in an event overrides one's own private signal, irrespective of the correctness of the former over the latter.
Information cascadeA simulacrum (plural: simulacra or simulacrums, from Latin simulacrum, which means "likeness, semblance") is a representation or imitation of a person or thing.[1] The word was first recorded in the English language in the late 16th century, used to describe a representation, such as a statue or a painting, especially of a god.
SimulacrumIn the Abilene paradox, a group of people collectively decide on a course of action that is counter to the preferences of many or all of the individuals in the group.
Abilene paradox