IT World

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Soon, the enthusiasts exclaimed, we won’t need people to write marketing copy, ads, essays, reports, or pretty much anything other than the most specialized scientific reports. And AI will be able to handle all our customer service calls, appointment-making, and other routine conversations.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

In his classic 2008 essay “ 1000 True Fans , ” Kevin Kelly predicted that the internet would transform the economics of creative activities: To be a successful creator you don’t need millions. You don’t need millions of dollars or … The post NFTs and a Thousand True Fans appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. If the previous essay was about the organization, this essay is more about the roadmap. The Types of Marketplaces.

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IT World

JANUARY 10, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is suddenly the darling of the tech world, thanks to ChatGPT , an AI chatbot that can do things such as carry on conversations and write essays and articles with what some people believe is human-like skill. In its first five days, more than a million people signed up to try it.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

More than a decade ago, Wired editor Kevin Kelly wrote an essay called “ 1,000 True Fans ,” predicting that the internet would allow large swaths of people to make a living off their creations, whether an artist, musician, author, … The post 1,000 True Fans? Try 100 appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2020

This in-depth essay by our SVP of Product, Paul Adams, explains the processes we use to build product, and details how product teams operate. We learn by doing, as Principal Product Designer Gustavs Cirulis points out in this thoughtful essay. We hope you find it informative. Lessons learned from scaling a product team.

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Crafty CTO

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In my July essay An Appllama Week in AI , I mentioned that Apple “might get pinched” because they move much slower than the AI space is moving.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Alongside posts on the thinking behind our latest products and features, we also published essays and podcasts about the challenges posed by the pandemic , how we made the transition to remote work , how we thought about diversity and allyship , and more. A refuge from uncertainty in a year that needed it.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 7, 2023

We Need a Posse In my last essay about writing, I touched on IndieWeb’s POSSE principles and that seemed like a great opportunity for an illustration. I gave it three tries and it was a win–at least in the sense that it gave me the subject matter for this little essay. Today I received an announcement Runway Gen-2 is now.

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IT World

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Thanks to his best-selling software development management book, The Mythical Man-Month Essays on Software Engineering , he became a programming and management legend. Fred Brooks died last month at age 91. Over the decades, I've met many tech leaders, but few were as quietly impressive as Brooks.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In the essay I stated that my firm Andreessen Horowitz, one of the largest venture capital firms in the world, was unabashedly and proudly declaring its unanimous support for America. In that narrow window before the world changed, I also wrote a thesis for a new category of technology company. That we were betting on America.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 3, 2023

I actually have enough content between larger essays and smaller micro formats that I’m having trouble finding my own stuff. After fixing my image processing woes , I decided to tackle site search. I surveyed the field, which included local JS options such as lunr.js and fuse.js, as well as external options like Algolia.

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IT World

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In fact, it can write convincing, often compelling essays, stories and even poems. Conceptually, ChatGPT can be used like the AI art tools in the sense that minimal text input by the user produces credible synthetic media — paragraphs instead of images. And, like the AI image creators, you can direct ChatGPT to write prose in specific styles.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The range of work we do as product managers is so broad that we inevitably end up finding inspiration from all sorts of sources, whether it’s books on business strategy or essays on design. If you are operating on a maker’s schedule, meetings are a disaster (see Paul Graham’s famous essay about it). Avoid unnecessary meetings.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 24, 2023

I'm working on a Crafty's Illustrated essay, and plan to give V5.2 This Midjourney update looks fantastic. a thorough workout when it's time for imagery.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 10, 2023

Recently, I wrote a short essay about an unpleasant discovery I made with ChatGPT’s dark pattern whereby, if you want to turn off “train your models using my chats,” you need to disable one of ChatGPT’s nicest features, chat history. Here’s the dialog in question: The update is that there may be a workaround.

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Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This week Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, posted an essay in which he believes there’s a 60% change the economy has a soft landing. This all rolls up to imply the the economy can sustain higher rates (because GDP growth not falling off a cliff), and will need higher rates given the sticky inflation.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 29, 2023

As Ott says, I already knew that blogging – and having a personal website in general – is a superpower … I had heard before of Vannevar Bush’s groundbreaking essay “As We May Think” that directly inspired the invention of hypertext by Ted Nelson and Douglas Engelbart, which, in turn, had a huge influence on the WorldWideWeb project.

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SaaS Metrics

JANUARY 1, 2020

There was a time when students had to do their essays and assignments on paper and carry them to their college to handover to the teachers. You can now create, share, and save your assignments, essays, and homework in different file formats. That means they don’t have to carry a large pile of paper to their school or college.

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Teamgate

MAY 29, 2020

For instance, Dissertation Today and custom essay know they need to use keywords like “essay papers” or “dissertation writing” to approach their target audience. Always use research tools such as Google Keyword Planner to identify the best options and analyze the following features: Difficulty score. Keyword length. Search volume.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 27, 2018

It’s a series of self-contained excerpts and essays from industry leaders who have grown businesses from $0 to many billions in revenue. There aren’t silver bullets or one size fits all answers to any of these common growth hurdles, but we can still learn a great deal from those who’ve ran the course before us.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 4, 2020

My dungeon shook – letter to my nephew : James Baldwin’s 1962 essay, which became half of his classic book The Fire Next Time , remains one of the most powerful personal reflections on the history of race relations in the US. King was assassinated the next day.

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Kellblog

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In other words, this is not your classic TLDR Kelloggian essay, but some quick tips. There’s some great content out there on the subject of hiring your first VP of sales at a startup, so in this post I’m going to do some quick thoughts on the subject in an effort to complement the existing corpus. Hire them first.

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In this essay, I’ll talk about how to think about balancing founder intuition vs. team expertise, and how that changes over time. The incoming employee may bring more expertise, but they don’t know the business yet. The founder is going to have a lot of opinions as is the employee, and they won’t necessarily match.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 5, 2020

This fascinating essay by Machine Learning Engineer Cathal Horan draws on the work of theoretical physicist Geoffrey West, network economics expert Geoffrey Parker and renowned urbanist Jane Jacobs to make the case that the growth of cities has a lot to teach us about how to develop a platform. Jeetu Patel, Box.

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Buffer Resources

MAY 18, 2023

“I've been doing this since around 2008, starting in the world of personal essays and personal blogging when it was more prevalent on the Internet.” ” Time and self-discovery have all contributed to the Elisa we know today.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. If the previous essay was about the organization, this essay is more about the roadmap. The Types of Marketplaces.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Education is currently struggling to deal with AI since students are using it to produce their essays and other assignments. The writing community strongly disagrees. This issue is just one dilemma associated with AI use. Some colleges and universities are rethinking their definition of original work as a result.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

But this is a topic to explore in another essay… In conclusion, I’m certain that despite big media negativity, the future is bright, and those who embrace AI and its transformative potential will undoubtedly be at the forefront of the new digital economy.

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Teamgate

JANUARY 23, 2020

There are times when you want to send the same message to different writing firms when you are looking for some essay help online. Also, if you find yourself emailing writing firms asking something like, “Can you do my essay?’’ Use Canned Responses For Recurrent Emails. Doing these things can be time consuming and exhausting.

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Buffer Resources

MAY 23, 2023

If you’ve ever sat through a 90-minute YouTube video essay about a random obscure topic — like this one about Disney channel’s theme — you may find the stats about humanity’s reducing attention spans jarring.

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In my recent essay about second products , I talked about how the goal of building a second product is not the traditional concept of product/market fit we’ve all been raised on regarding startups. In some ways, our goal with a second product is easier, and in some ways, much harder.

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Kellblog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Hence, I’ve restructured it largely in accordance with a rule from my grandmother, a high school english teacher: most essays are improved by simply deleting the first paragraph. I had planned to restructure this post in response to feedback on the draft, but failed to do so before it auto-posted earlier today.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

From that book: This book will argue, however, that within several decades information-based technologies will encompass all human knowledge and proficiency, ultimately including the pattern-recognition powers, problem-solving skills, and emotional and moral intelligence of the human brain itself.

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Teamgate

DECEMBER 19, 2019

A platform of this nature can be ideal for the online service industry, such as an essay reviewer ; the tool is highly intuitive and does not disrupt the design of your website. . Companies that offer services for specific markets like UkWritings and you can also find essay services by reading up on Edubirdie review. Builderall.

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Casey Accidental

JULY 12, 2021

Thanks to Tamara Mendelsohn for contributing to this essay. In almost all cases, we will need to iterate to optimize comprehension, adoption, retention, satisfaction, and that emotional connection that leads to word of mouth and improved adoption of things teams will launch in the future.

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The Angel VC

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Andrew is a writer and entrepreneur and has written a large number of must-read essays on topics such as viral marketing, growth hacking and monetization. [Note: This post first appeared as a guest post on Andrew Chen's blog. He was kind enough to publish my post on his blog, and I am republishing it here.]

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