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The Insularity of Silicon Valley

Tom Tunguz

Earlier this week, the Commerce Department announced US GDP in Q1 2014 fell by 3% , the most in a quarter since the recession. I’ve linked to the WSJ’s chart depicting the trend above. The decline was 3x greater than forecasted. Silicon Valley seems unfazed. As I wrote about earlier this year, we’ve seen a decline in the public markets of about 25% in consumer stocks and 45% in enterprise stocks.

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Startup sales objections: Selling against the incumbent

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"Your software really looks like the best solution, but we will go with Salesforce, simply because they're the standard in this field. We know their software can scale and grow with our company, it integrates with everything we need.

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The Five Forces Shaping the Fundraising Market

Tom Tunguz

Last week, the team at Wharton in San Francisco invited me to speak at the Entrepreneurs Workshop. I chose the topic of the “Five Forces Shaping the Fundraising Market” and prepared a Mary Meeker style presentation, with a chart and a bullet point on each slide, to illustrate the forces in tension. It was great fun. I’ve embedded the slides from the presentation above and will link to the video once it’s live.

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The Hottest Startup Sectors

Tom Tunguz

There’s a cyclicality to fundraising. Certain sectors rise quickly and become competitive while others decline. I’ve been wondering about the state of the market. First, which sectors are in vogue now in Seed investing and Series A investing? Second, is there a delay between the sectors attracting seed capital and Series A capital? In other words, do seed investors see trends before VCs do?

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Monetizing Analytics Features

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The Disruption Debate is Focused on the Wrong Ideas

Tom Tunguz

Jill LePore’s New Yorker polemic “ The Disruption Machine ” attempts to debunk the incredibly popular Innovator’s Dilemma, a theory written by HBS professor Clayton Christensen. I’ve been reading the debate around it with some interest. It’s becoming a really interesting conversation but I think the debate is focused on the wrong thing - whether or not these ideas are absolutely correct, even axiomatic.

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Why Smart Watches Could be a Huge Trend in Mobile

Tom Tunguz

Google revealed many novel projects and products at yesterday’s Google IO Conference. At the moment, I’m most curious about the development of Android Wear, in part because of the beautiful Motorola 360 watch and in part because I suspect connected watches bring substantial change to the mobile device market. It’s easy to write off watches as a niche product.

Mobile 100
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Detailed Timezone Support For Canada And Australia

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Our timezone-related features have worked well for the United States and all the countries, which fit within a single timezone. However, if you have any customers in Canada or Australia, you’ll be happy to know that we recently improved our search engine to support these countries, too.