Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
AI usage is surging among consumers, developers, enterprises and governments. And unlike the Internet 1.0 revolution – where technology started in the USA and steadily diffused globally – ChatGPT hit the world stage all at once, growing in most global regions simultaneously.
Better growth rates start with looking at your customers and better understanding each customer segment, how they think and why they make decisions. They come from insights you find in a small group of customers that you can use to build entirely new growth strategies. They come from thinking about customers as people, and then working backwards.
A tiny experiment isn’t a complete overhaul of your life. It’s a low-risk repeated action you take to learn something new, spark a shift, or test a possibility. It’s how you can make change not only manageable, but fun. Read on if you’d like to try it out but you’re not quite sure how to find good ideas for experiments.
Exceptional startups do things very differently from the median startup (and of course the median startup is a failure), and once you see how different an exceptional startup is, you won’t settle for working for, investing in, or joining anything less.
Mary Meeker, the famed internet analyst turned venture capitalist, on Friday published her first Trends report since 2019 — focused on the AI revolution.
If I could go back in time, here are a few pieces of advice I would give to myself many, many years ago when I started my career in venture capital.
Speed isn’t just important, it is the moat. The ability to build, ship, learn, and adapt faster than everyone else is the only sustainable edge right now. In a world where everything is open source, everything is demo-able, and everything is one blog post away from being copied, speed is the only thing that compounds.
Spending too much time fixating on one thing leads you towards a sort of monomaniacal obsession with it: “functional programming is the only way” sort of thing. On the other hand, you can fixate the other way and spend all your time contemplating what the best thing is to do, leading to a weird sort of nihilism as you question everything while you watch life go by. And yet stepping away from our problems can be such a powerful tool for us, giving us the space to understand if we’re doing the right thing: you can’t see the forest for the trees and all that.
Ground Score, which sees its mission as building community while also “changing society’s perceptions of what and who is considered valuable,” shows what that recognition and formalization look like on a local level. It’s a model with huge potential, given the urgent global need to create stronger social safety nets and combat the growing plastic waste crisis. Could it work in other cities, too?
If passed, it would be the first law of its kind in the United States, forcing Big Tech to compensate press organizations in Oregon for a portion of the value that news generates on major platforms. Khanh Pham, a state senator and the bill’s primary sponsor, drafted the legislation based on other efforts to compensate journalists—in Australia and Canada, where such laws have gone into effect, and in California and New Jersey, which have made similar attempts—and with input from a coalition that included Oregon Public Broadcasting, the Fund for Oregon Rural Journalism, the Oregon Association of Broadcasters, the Oregon Newspaper Association, and the Society of Professional Journalists.
AI is changing what it means to get a foot in the door in tech. But while the ground is shifting, new grads may be uniquely positioned to adapt. That’s one takeaway from investors, professors, and tech execs we spoke with this month to gather advice for the Class of 2025.
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