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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 … https://t.co/v98AhNTFRo

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New post in Venture Desktop: The Virtual Economy

Still working my way through this piece. Love the design...

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New post in Venture Desktop: 11 Notes on McKinsey

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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. https://t.co/YHSpIGdzpj

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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.”

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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 … https://t.co/VoRKbKLrAZ

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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.… https://t.co/bgWfHLJZbw

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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").
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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… https://t.co/NTrAsdZYQZ

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New post in Venture Desktop: Interesting story and group here in Paris that I had never heard of.

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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!)

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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 … https://t.co/XPddZKrtuG

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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… https://t.co/jwQcoVo7B9

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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… https://t.co/zdIpiYnG7z

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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… https://t.co/rzSX7Qsv2m

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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

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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… https://t.co/agImXkQgd3

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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… https://t.co/hqzhwVzrT7