"Before you invest in acquiring new users through marketing or paid channels, you should understand how to strengthen and stabilize retention for early users." Get users to come back with these tips in our latest Medium post. seq.vc/2M47bn9

“Where to Go After Product-Market Fit” is the best content from Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 since he shut down the blog. Must read. a16z.com/2018/07/20/aft…

When we talk about “hustle,” perhaps what we’re really referring to is one’s level of persistent tolerance and determination to do a lot of frustrating and tedious work that feels immaterial day-by-day but ultimately matters.

Why Fast Learning Curves are So Important to Startups • Tomasz Tunguz bit.ly/2ORAzyu

Direct Marketing playbook: In 1986 Warren Buffett took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal "We want to buy businesses worth $100 million or more ...there's a vital reason why you should consider selling" He first outlined his criteria in the 1982 annual letter

Fair Isaac Corporation, creator of the widely used FICO credit score, said it would test a new score that considers a borrower’s bank account balances and cash management. nyti.ms/2D7eeLA

I just published "Why the world needs deep generalists, not specialists" medium.com/swlh/why-the-w…

Just published: 'Systematised quant venture in the sciences'. medium.com/@iammarkhammon… Thank you to the original inspiration from Ryan Caldbeck Max Niederhofer ❤️‍🔥 and samir kaji and feedback on the thesis from Tom Hulme Roy E. Bahat Guy Perelmuter and Mario Branciforti

But if you love what you do, it (mostly) doesn’t feel like work

0/ Mastering bottoms up adoption *and* enterprise sales is really hard. Yet many of the fastest growing enterprise companies do. This thread explores some of the considerations and why juggling both motions is a lot more complicated than most assume.

Even more amazingly: US aside, every single G8 country is a net *exporter* of inventors. The same is true for China and India. x.com/sknthla/status… (Original report: wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/….)

"A Backtesting Protocol in the Era of Machine Learning" by Arnott, Campbell, and Markowitz. Excellent paper! bit.ly/2AULsdt (thanks Rob Carver for sharing on LinkedIn).

Fintech start-up Plaid to buy competitor Quovo for $200 million in its first major deal. The marriage tees up Plaid for expansion into investment & brokerage data and more market share in the API biz cnb.cx/2VDTHUH

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