Our startup ecosystem, like all markets, goes through regular ups and downs. Sometimes we go through a period of unusually high highs, like the back half of 2020 and most of 2021. Sometimes we go t…
The consumer subscription business model is certainly not a new concept. And as we’ve been investing in more B2C companies recently, we’re reminded just how popular this strategy to monetization continues to be. Even marketplaces, which traditionally just took a piece of each transaction, are now looking to charge monthly or annual fees. For example […]
Your ancestors pet snakes and drank foul-smelling water. You (likely) do not, as you have learned from their mistakes via the ultimate streaming network of life lessons, always on in your head, called instinct+. In sum, our instincts help us predict the future. If you get close to a lion it will eat you, etc. […]
A Delhi-based startup is trying to solve the cleantech sector’s energy storage problem. With EV batteries Read this edition online Wednesday, 01 June 2022 Staggering insights about climate change and its impact on business, tech, finance and politics.
Last week I was asked about some of my current goals and I replied that I’m more focused on systems and processes to achieve desired outcomes. Goals are important insomuch as you need to deci…
"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked", says Warren Buffett, and now we're indeed seeing just how many tech companies have been indecently exposed as the investment mood snaps from greed to fear. Bolt, for example, just announced a brutal 1/3 cut of all staff, after touching the sun with a $11 billion v...
A token that offers exposure to gold (but all of it is in the ground)
Singapore-based Nature’s Vault hopes to sell tokens backed by mining rights for about 4,200 kilograms of gold Read this edition online Wednesday, 25 May 2022 Tokenised is your weekly read to navigate and mine the rich vein of crypto developments that flow through India and Southeast Asia.
Why connecting with one means connecting with everyone
It is the act of omission, of saying no to a subset of customers or investors or potential hires, that gives depth to a company’s narrative. Read this edition online Friday, 20 May 2022
282: Amazon, Cloudflare's Meta-Product, Stripe & Databricks, Nintendo, AI-Tailored Media, 1993 AT&T Ad, Google Subsea Fiber, and Video Games as 'Literature'
"A cross between GPT-x + DALL-E-X + the TikTok algorithm"
They failed to capture the hill at Netflix. That small but vocal gang of employees hellbent on canceling Chappelle last year over his comedy special. Now comes the counter offensive from the executive in the form of newly updated cultural guidelines at the company: “As employees we support the principle that Netflix offers a diversity ...
OopsAn “algorithmic stablecoin” sounds complicated, and there are a lot of people with incentives to pretend that it is complicated, but it Oops An “algorithmic stablecoin” sounds complicated, and there are a lot of people with incentives to pretend that it is complicated, but it is not.
MVP is such a profound misnomer; a good MVP is not viable, and it is certainly not a product. Chances are it isn't minimal either, come to think of it.