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So you wanna build a bio company?
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with Jorge Conde, Hanne Tidnam, Julie Yoo
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Building a software company in healthcare is hard, for many reasons including complex incentives, information asymmetry, and regulatory dynamics. So how should tech founders think about this space differently? In this conversation, a16z bio partners (and former founders) share their mistakes and hard-earned lessons learned -- on everything from the right strategies and right team, to the right go-to-market... which is where most stumbles tend to occur.
listen to this podcast |
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Debating network effects
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with Frank Chen, D'Arcy Coolican, Li Jin
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Some of the most successful companies and products from the phone era to the internet era have all been predicated on the concept of network effects, where the network becomes more valuable to users as more people use it. But how do you tell network effects apart from other phenomena that are not actually network effects? And whether they are enduring? How do they differ across categories? Finally, what metrics should you look at to determine if you even have network effects in the first place, and to manage them if so? This three-part video miniseries explores (and debates) the answers to these questions:
watch video 1: is it a network effect?
watch video 2: debating network effects across categories
watch video 3: measuring network effects |
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Inside the pitch room at a16z: what resonated, founding stories, and VR
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with Andrew Chen, Siqi Chen, Steve Zhao
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There's a ton of advice out there on how to do pitch decks, but how does the person being pitched react slide by slide? This set of videos provides a sort of “director’s commentary” walkthrough of what resonated and what didn’t with a16z portfolio company Sandbox VR's pitch. Speaking of, what's their founding story, what drove them to try to build the Holodeck, and how might storytelling play out in this new medium?
watch 'the a16z pitch room' video
watch the Sandbox VR founding story video |
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