Come for the tool, stay for the network

2015-01-31

A popular strategy for bootstrapping networks is what I like to call “come for the tool, stay for the network.” The idea is to initially…

Virtual reality: a new creative medium where the default state is belief

2015-01-24

The holy grail of virtual reality, the one that’s always been out of reach until now, is presence. In the VR community, “presence” is a term…

Stack Exchange

2015-01-20

Today we are announcing that A16z is leading a $40M investment in Stack Exchange, along with earlier investors USV, Bezos Expeditions, Spark…

Skydio

2015-01-15

I’m excited to announce today that Andreessen Horowitz is leading a $3M financing of Skydio, a startup developing artificial intelligence…

How We Got To Now

2015-01-12

I really enjoyed Steven Johnson's How We Got To Now. I read a lot of history and science books, but this book stood out because 1) the…

VC investment vs Gartner hype cycle

2015-01-12

Here is total VC investment over time: And here's the Gartner hype cycle: One reading of this is that the advent of the internet was the…

Flow

2015-01-10

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1996 on the concept of Flow: [Flow] is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls…