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The Four Strategies

How to understand the essence of any business

38 🔒 Feb 11, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Why I Love Working at Startups

A friendly rebuttal

37 🔒 May 21, 2021 by Nathan Baschez

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How Competition Works

It’s not like war, but it’s not like art class, either.

35 🔒 Dec 17, 2019 by Nathan Baschez

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Strategy Smells

Hints that your strategy isn't working

33 🔒 Sep 4, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Disrupting Disruption

Strategy’s most famous theory could be wrong

33 Jul 19, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Notion’s $2b Valuation is Sensible, Probably

Three Shorts: Notion, Roam, and “Time Preference”

30 🔒 Apr 10, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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How Power Works in Venture Capital

Is being Sequoia actually pretty easy?

29 🔒 Sep 7, 2021 by Nathan Baschez

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My Philosophy of Product Building (Part II)

Building your v1

29 Nov 30, 2022 by Nathan Baschez

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Product Case Study: HEY

A radical new take on email

29 🔒 Jul 3, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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My Philosophy of Product Building (Part III)

On launching and learning

28 Dec 7, 2022 by Nathan Baschez

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Why is Netflix more profitable than Spotify?

Three Shorts — April 2nd, 2020

27 🔒 Apr 2, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Dominance Friction

Jesse Beyroutey, partner at IA Ventures, on why some companies achieve dominance while others get bogged down.

26 Mar 5, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

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The Product Wedge: How To Scope Your Initial Product

How and why early-stage startups sacrifice power for growth

26 🔒 Jul 16, 2021 by Nathan Baschez and Austin Langlinais

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How creators can go “on tour” on the internet

Growing an audience ain’t what it used to be

25 May 9, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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The Three Systems Beneath Network Effects

An exclusive excerpt from a16z general partner Andrew Chen’s new book, The Cold Start Problem

25 Dec 6, 2021 by Nathan Baschez and Andrew Chen

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Why I like Dispo

David Dobrik’s new photo-sharing app just might be a winner.

24 🔒 Feb 20, 2021 by Nathan Baschez

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Notes on ConstitutionDAO

A few quick observations

24 🔒 Nov 18, 2021 by Nathan Baschez

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Three Shorts: Snap, Apple, Vox

On Snap's take on TikTok, Apple's developer fee reduction, and Vox's talent attrition.

24 🔒 Nov 25, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Three Shorts: Axios, Crunchyroll, Periscope

The strategy behind the news, in as few bullet points as possible

24 🔒 Dec 16, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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Great strategies depend on great inputs — here’s how to find them.

Hiten Shah on why “garbage in, garbage out” applies to strategy, too.

23 Feb 19, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

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How Every Executes: two tweaks that generated ~54% more paid subscribers

Real data from our business showing how execution is exponential

23 🔒 Aug 17, 2022 by Nathan Baschez

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Friendly Competition and Subtle Defection

My wife and I recently bought our first home and we’re expecting our first child soon, so, as you can imagine, we’ve been doing a lot of wor

23 🔒 Apr 7, 2022 by Nathan Baschez

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The two biggest critiques of web3, analyzed

With a little help from Clay Christensen, strategy legend

23 🔒 Nov 12, 2021 by Nathan Baschez

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Strategy Drunk

A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,And drinking

21 Dec 15, 2019 by Nathan Baschez

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PepsiCo goes DTC

One new strategy. Two new websites.

20 🔒 May 20, 2020 by Nathan Baschez