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From the Investors
Benedict Evans of Andreessen Horowitz reaches the limit to bundling mobile apps and describes the survival of online portals in China in “App Unbundling, Search and Discovery”
Bruce Booth of Atlas Venture analyzes the 66 biotech companies that have gone public since July 2013 in “VC-Backed Biotech IPOs: Valuations And Virtuous Cycles”
Hunter Walk of Homebrew views the seed round as a time to build relationships, not just raise money, in “Don’t Send a Banker to Do a Founder’s Job: Seed Fundraising Can’t Be Outsourced”
Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures observes startup M&A valuations climbing in tandem with the stock market in “What The Public Markets Trends Say About The Fundraising And M&A Environment Startups”
Scott Sansovich of Cue Ball Capital judo flips the pitch deck and uses the competition as a launching pad in “The Other Team: How to Talk About the Competition in a Pitch”
Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures reflects on a lesson learned the hard way in “Know When Conceding on a Point is Better Than Being Right”
Jeffrey Carter of West Loop Ventures does more due-diligence as an angel investor on the founder than on the idea in “Do You Bet on Teams, Or Ideas?”
Semil Shah of Haystack Fund draws parallels between Y Combinator and the startups it funds in “Think of YC as a Growing Startup”
Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures calls out Marc Andreessen, forecasts job obsolescence, in “It is OK to Worry about Work (& Doesn’t Make You a Luddite or Socialist)”
Tren Griffin of Microsoft shares “A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Ann Winblad”
Sean Jacobsohn of Emergence Capital creates a quiz for cloud startup founders in “How to Find Out if Your Cloud Startup Has Product-Market Fit”
Steven Sinofsky of Andreessen Horowitz looks at mobile opportunities in Africa and the “Hotspot 2.0” in “Going Where the Money Isn’t: Wi-Fi for South African Townships”
Chris Dixon of Andreessen Horowitz deconstructs companies’ embrace of technology in “Three Levels of Enthusiasm for Technology”
From the Operators
Mathilde Collin of Frontapp calls for women to talk about their experiences as female founders in “I’m a Woman CEO and It Doesn’t Change Anything”
Aarjav Trivedi of Summon puts down the carrot and the stick to stem a potentially-crushing problem in “How We Nearly Doubled Driver Reliability at Summon”
Kate Kendall of CloudPeeps dolls out some advice on email and meeting etiquette in “10 Ways to Win at Professional Time Etiquette”
Sarah Jane of Secret issues a mea culpa for a tweet in “My Mistake.”
Salim Verani of Leancamp watches your original target market shrink, or shift, as your product-market fit evolves in “The Lean Canvas – Wrong Tool for the Job?”