Single User Utility In A Social System
avc.comSo I encourage the product teams in our portfolio to think hard about building single person utility into their products. Its a paradox of sorts but by making sure its useful to just one person you are insuring its useful to tens of millions of people.
Estimated reading time: 2 min
Subconscious Information Processing
avc.comHe explained that once your brain starts working on a problem, it doesn't stop. If you get your mind wrapped around a problem with a fair bit of time left to solve it, the brain will solve the problem subconsciously over time and one day you'll sit down to do some more work on it and the answer will be right in front of you.
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#screwcable
avc.comI've long believed that piracy is largely a business model problem not a human behavior problem. If you give people a legal way to consume the content they want, they will pay for it. But when you make it impossible to legally consume the content they want, they will pirate it.
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Cheap Will Be Smart. Expensive Will Be Dumb.
avc.comI believe that cheap devices will be smart and expensive devices will be dumb.
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Revenue Traction Doesn't Mean Product Market Fit
avc.comit is dangerous to ramp up headcount and burn until you are certain that you have the right product and the right people and processes in the organization to support the product
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You Can Do Too Much Due Diligence
avc.comI learned that a service can get traction with the little guys and in time, the big guys will come along.
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House Of Cards
avc.comNetflix has taken the "hack" out of the system and just gives viewers the flexibility to watch the series when and how they want
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Bluetooth vs Airplay
avc.comThis shows the power of an open protocol like Bluetooth vs a proprietary protocol like Airplay. Airplay is a superior technology but it's lack of ubiquity may mean that it doesn't win the market in the end
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Martin Weigert recommended this story.
Mobile Is Where The Growth Is
avc.comIn technology the more things change, the more the stay the same. You cannot ever rest. Because the big change that is going to upset your nice apple cart is right around the corner. Today that is mobile. Tomorrow, who knows? I am trying like hell to figure out what that will be and jump on it. Because that's how you play this game.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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Modern Community Building
avc.comModern community building isn't easy but if there is one thing the Internet has taught me over the past 15 years, large engaged communities are incredible powerful things, both commercially and socially. Building them is important and ultimately very valuable work.
Estimated reading time: 2 min
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Bitcoin Update
avc.comBitcoin is still very much a fringe thing and is tiny as these things go. Compared the the volume of transactions Square will do with Starbucks, Bitcoin looks like a joke. But I like to pay attention to the jokes, the laughing stocks, because occasionally they get the last laugh.
Estimated reading time: 1 min
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After The Hype
avc.comThe hot companies come and go. You can't create lasting value on hype. It can give you a boost for sure but at the end of the day product wins and that is where all entrepreneurs must focus, particularly when the hype cycle ends.
Estimated reading time: 2 min
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