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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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Public and Open Debate is the Highest Form of Democracy (and Blogging)

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And there is relationship between debating and blogging. I started blogging in 2005 and then re-started blogging about a year ago. The most important experience I have in blogging is the debate it encourages. So it goes with blogging. Think it’s purely evil to fend off competition? Let me explain.

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Why I Look for Obsessive and Competitive Founders

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When second place isn’t good enough because we live in winner-take-most markets. This blog started from a series of conversations I found myself having over and over again with founders and eventually decided I should just start writing them.It But the film has my brain buzzing all week about obsessive and competitive people.

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Why Venture Capital is So Much More Compelling Now

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I wrote about this in a blog post last year titled “ It’s Morning in VC ” but I never made the full deck available until now. Companies are now raising much more capital in the private markets now before they go public. But I’ll save this data and analysis for the next post. Thus is a key point.

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Turning the Camera on Chris Dixon

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Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. He’s thoughtful about markets, investors, products and is always very well reasoned in his arguments. If you like the quick summary notes, please check out Adam’s blog on tech, entrepreneurship & VC as a thank you.

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In Defense of Uber: An Unbiased Opinion

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They were a little too fierce in their competitive practices against Lyft to sign up drivers. As somebody who has to rub shoulders with big tech companies often I can tell you that there is much blood spilled in the competitive trenches of Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Google and so on. Tech Market Analysis' Until then.

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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

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The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. Let’s start with the incumbents position in a market. They were serving a latent market need for mid-sized businesses to use CRM.