From the Investors
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz mark the five year anniversary of their fund by taking stock of the technology sector and highlighting what’s to come in “a16z Podcast: Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1”
Quinten Farmer of Prehype contemplates the future uses of Stellar in “Stellar and the $10 Trillion Economy”
Roy Bahat of Bloomberg Beta parses the destructive language of office war and how it justifies our bad behavior in “In Business, Let’s Stop Using the Language of War”
Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures discovers no statistical difference between states for M&A activity in “The Impact of a Startup’s Location on its Acquisition Price“
Li Jiang of GSV Capital looks at the simplification of mobile interfaces in “The Evolution of Mobile Products”
Hunter Walk of Homebrew Ventures increases engagement by leaving equity in the founders’ hands in “Getting Founders Some Early Liquidity Can Benefit VCs”
Tren Griffin of Microsoft expands on thoughts from John Doerr on sales, ideas, and attempting the impossible, in “A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from John Doerr”
Jeff Carter of West Loop Ventures applies six current themes in innovation to agribusiness in “Hacking Ag – Is It So Bad?”
Semil Shah of Haystack Fund breaks out why he tells mobile developers to focus on “iOS First. Android Much, Much Later”
From the Operators
Vijay Sundaram of Found identifies caveats to successfully fundraising after crowdfunding for hardware startups in “Crowdfunding is No Panacea for Product-Market Fit”
Henrik Zillmer of AirHelp speaks to his experience in both accelerators to explain “The Difference between Rocket Internet and Y Combinator” — “What Rocket is to execution, YC is to product.”
Shri Bhashyam of EquityZen notes public market tech trends for the first half of 2014 in “2014 H1: Tech IPO Review”
From the Community
Ken Goldberg of UC Berkeley outlines a mechanized future that follows the five elements of Cloud Robotics in “Robots With Their Heads in the Clouds” (via Aspen Ideas Festival)