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2026 2
2025 4
2024 3
2023 16
- Altimeter's Brad Gerstner on Macro, Tech and Startups
- Capital Efficient Businesses
- Video & transcript: Apoorva Metha, founder & former CEO, Instacart
- Fireside chat with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
- Unicorn Market Cap 2023: Rise of AI
- AI Regulation
- Early days of AI (and AI Hype Cycle)
- AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day
- Transcript & Video: Claire Hughes Johnson Fireside Chat on Scaling People
- AI Safety: Technology vs Species Threats
- Video and transcript: Fireside chat with Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face
- Startup Decoupling & Reckoning
- Defensibility & Competition
- AI Platforms, Markets, & Open Source
- Transcript & Video: Fireside w/ Dylan Field
- Fireside chat with Reid Hoffman on AI, Big Tech, & Society
2022 7
2021 7
2020 11
- Index Companies
- Unicorn Market Cap & Industry Towns, 2020
- Silicon Valley & Defense Tech
- Jobs, Wozniak, Cook (Build, Sell, Scale)
- Collaborative Enterprise (at last!)
- SPACs: A Brief Overview
- Startup Offense and Defense in the Recession
- March 11 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update For Startups
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) PSA for Startups
- Products I Wish Existed, 2020 Edition
- 5 SaaS Features For Big Enterprises
2019 8
2018 10
2017 10
2016 6
2015 5
2014 18
- Founders Should Divide and Conquer
- Should Your Lead VC Veto Other Investors?
- Defensibility And Lock In: Uber & Lyft
- YC Is A Network Effect Business
- Building A Recruiting Org
- We Will Crush You
- Recruiting Is a Grind
- What Is A "Good" VC?
- How To Ask For An Introduction
- 5 Signs A Candidate Just Isn't That Into You
- Angel Etiquette
- 6 Traits To Look For When Hiring Executives
- The Acquisition Blues
- 5 People Who Destroy Your Culture
- Do Acquisitions Always Kill Products?
- Google Has Always Been A Hardware Company (Of Sorts)
- How To Sell Secondary Stock
- Running A Business
2013 9
2012 16
- Takeaways From The 100 Largest Public Companies
- How To Choose The Right VC Partner For You
- Startups & Miracles
- The Road To $5 Billion Is A Long One
- How To Win As Second Mover
- Snap Out Of It!
- Fundraising Will Take You ~3 Months
- Employee #1 Is The Toughest Hire
- Enough With This "End Of Silicon Valley" Nonsense
- Ask Before You Intro
- Signs A VC Is Just Not That Into You
- VC Signaling Coming Home To Roost
- Risks, Rewards, Stress: Early Employees & Founders
- How To Choose A Co-Founder
- Why Now? What Wave Are You Riding? (弄潮儿)
- How Pinterest Will Transform the Web in 2012: Social Content Curation As The Next Big Thing
2011 29
- Stepping Back: 5 Questions To Yourself Ask Yourself About Your Startup
- How To Choose A Board Member
- How To Reply to Angel Investor Intro Emails
- Holy Crap! The NY Startup Scene
- Series A Crunch: Why Fewer Companies Are Successfully Raising Series A Rounds
- Hire For The Ability To Get Shit Done
- 12 Year Old Steve Jobs Meets Bill Hewlett (of HP)
- What Is Your Startup Acquisition Offer Really Worth?
- 5 Reasons To Sell Your Startup
- Startups: Give Your Family Stock In Your Company
- You Should Read Every Word of Every Legal Doc (Especially Funding Docs)
- Our 10 Step Engineering Hiring Process at Mixer Labs
- Android First - A New Trend In Mobile Development
- 4 Ways Startups Fail
- What Are The 2 Most Important Traits in An Entrepreneur?
- Is Stealth Mode Stupid?
- Your #1 Job As CEO
- Questions VCs Will Ask You
- How to Raise a Successful VC Round or Series A
- How Funding Rounds Differ: Seed, Series A, Series B, and C...
- How Can You Tell If Your Market Is A Good One?
- Ode To The "Older" Entrepreneur
- Are We In The Inflationary Part of an Internet Financing Bubble? 2011 = 1997 (?)
- Should You Raise Money Before You Ship Product?
- Dear YC Company, How To Use Your $150K Uncapped Note To Your Advantage
- You Don't Need A Good Idea To Start A Great Company
- M&A Ladder: Position Your Startup To Sell it For More
- Hiring Tip: Graph Interview Performance Vs Years of Experience To Spot Outliers
- 6 Startup & Tech Trend Predictions for 2011
2010 33
- Companies Who Will Buy Companies in 2011
- 5 Myths To Building an Awesome Mobile Team
- Financing approaches most likely to kill your company (if it is already on the edge)
- 6 Startup Ideas Every Nerd Has
- The Benefits Of Thinking Small
- Breaking Apart the Startup in the Cloud - A Dramatic Shift in Company Building
- Are You A Visionary Entrepreneur?
- Investor - Want an Equity Seed Round? Pay For The Legal Fees
- Your Lawyer and 3 Other People You Should *Not* Give Equity To
- 10X Your Business
- Put Your Investors To Work For You
- Are You An Alcoholic Yet? Or, The Great Startup Rollercoaster
- The Fundingpocalypse: Your Mom Wants To Angel Invest!
- Party Rounds: How The Crappy Economy, Y Combinator, Angel List, and Super Angels Have Changed Fundraising
- Party Rounds: How To Get a High Valuation For Your Seed Startup
- 20 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Raising Money
- Angels vs Superangels - What is the difference?
- Is Your Startup A Cash or Equity Business?
- 3 (Sometimes) Stupid Reasons to Raise Venture Funding
- Bootstrapping: Raise Debt From Your Employees
- Should You Let a VC Invest in Your Seed Round?
- VC Economics – Why Your $50 Million Exit Means Nothing
- Fat Startup: Raise $100 Million For Your Next Internet Company
- Startups: When & How to Fire an Employee at a Small Startup
- Raise a seed now! Raise a series A in 12 months! :)
- The 7 types of angel investors - what is right for your startup?
- VCs & Starter Stock - Why & How to Ask for "FF Shares"
- Setting Up Your Startup: 5 Non-Obvious Things to Get Right Early On
- TS Elliot Quote
- Hiring Techniques for Early Stage Startups: How to Get Your First 3 Employees
- Hiring the First 5 Engineers: What Sort of People Do You Want on Your Team?
- 5 Life Extension Technologies You Can Employ in Day To Day Life
- 5 Butt Kicking Companies You (Probably) Never Heard Of
2009 9
- Geo-Location APIs: What Are The Differences?
- The 3 Types of Embedded Social Networks That Drive User Generated Content
- We are hiring - please send engineering resumes! :)
- The VC Cleanse - Taking Advantage of the Downturn to Walk Away
- 8 Digital Media Companies I would Invest In (If I was a VC)
- M&A: How to tell if Google/Microsoft/FB is about to buy your social media startup
- Twitter is to Facebook as Google was to Yahoo!
- Lotto vs Stocks: what performs better? :)
- Top 8 Tech Companies Started or Funded During a Recession