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Switching to standalone components in Angular significantly improves scalability, maintainability, and performance.

Building Enterprise Angular Apps? You’re Doing It Wrong (Unless You Use Standalone Components)

Learn how to make your personal site from scratch using Angular and Scully. Top it up with an easy deployment via netlify.

Creating an Angular Blog With Scully and Deploying on Netlify

Top software development companies that are growing fast in 2022. Hire the best software developers for your project today!

Top Software Development Companies 2022 That Are Growing Fast

API has been rapidly driving new opportunities for business in last few years. Read in details how top API monetisation models helps in business growth.

4 Standard Business Models for API Monetization

Although a typical CEO remains in the role for about seven years, legal issues pose major threats to these positions and, ultimately, company or shareholder val

11 Reasons Why CEOs Got Fired And Companies Got Sued in 2020

[I co-wrote this essay with my a16z partner Andrew Chen. We’re excited about the future of marketplaces and the service economy. Hope you enjoy this glimpse into our thinking, and let us know if you have any feedback!]

The Future of Marketplaces: Reinventing the $10 Trillion Service Economy

The top-earning writer on the paid newsletter platform Substack earns more than $500,000 a year from reader subscriptions. The top content 
creator on Podia, a platform for video courses and digital memberships, 
makes more than $100,000 a month. And teachers across the US are 
bringing in thousands of dollars a month teaching live, virtual classes 
on Outschool and Juni Learning.

The Passion Economy’s Worklife Balance

What Will the Next Era of Marketplaces Look Like?

[This post was co-authored by me and my colleague at a16z, D’Arcy Coolican (@dcoolican). This is a companion to our other essay exploring the dynamics of network effects. If you’re an operator, we’d love to hear your thoughts on how you measure your own product’s network effects!]

Startup Metrics: 16 Ways to Measure Network Effects

The past two years have been difficult for Snap. Once the dominant social app for both millennials and Gen Zers, Snapchat was plagued by a poorly received redesign and competition from Instagram (especially with the Stories product) that resulted in stalling user&nbsp;growth.

The reports of Snapchat’s death have been greatly exaggerated…

I spent the past four days at <a href="https://shoptalk.com/" target="_blank">Shoptalk</a>, a retail and e-commerce conference that welcomed nearly 8,500 attendees from around the world. As a venture investor who thinks a lot about the future of retail and how startups can make an impact, I was excited to hear from an amazing roster of industry experts, from CEOs of public companies to data scientists at global retailers.

The Future of Retail: Lessons Learned from Shoptalk 2019

Like almost everyone else in tech, we were excited to see <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1759509/000119312519059849/d633517ds1.htm" target="_blank">Lyft’s S-1</a> drop last Friday. The rideshare industry has fundamentally changed how millions of people (including us!) get around on a daily basis, which is an incredible accomplishment given that Lyft and Uber have been around for less than a decade. It’s rare to see a product reach near ubiquity over a relatively short period of time, and this feels like a unique opportunity to watch a transformational consumer tech company debut on the public market.

Five Surprising Things in Lyft’s S-1

Billions of dollars in venture capital have poured into direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands over the past ten years, funding hundreds of upstart brands challenging the incumbents in <a href="https://www.inc.com/magazine/201805/tom-foster/direct-consumer-brands-middleman-warby-parker.html" target="_blank">nearly every</a> product category. These brands, once <a href="http://fortune.com/2014/11/21/into-the-gloss/" target="_blank">ignored</a> by investors, are now raising multi-million dollar rounds pre-launch and recruiting top talent.

D2C 2.0: The Rise of Infrastructure

A lot of applications — especially in the enterprise area — implement entity manipulation mainly based on the CRUD operations. CRUD is an acronym for

Commands & Events instead of CRUD — Part 1: Commands

This week, CRV portfolio company Bird <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/27/for-a-small-fee-entrepreneurs-can-now-manage-their-own-fleet-of-bird-e-scooters/" target="_blank">publicly announced a new platform</a> for independent operators to manage their own scooter fleets. Bird will sell the scooters and provide access to a marketplace of chargers and mechanics in exchange for a 20% revenue share. We’re incredibly excited about this program, as it allows Bird to quickly expand geographically while giving operators the chance to build a great business on top of a fantastic product.

Bird’s new Platform program and the rise of the “business in a box”

The day after I came home from the hospital, I quickly realized that all the housework I had been doing until the day before I delivered was suddenly impossible. I could barely walk let alone stay awake!

As a new mom — I take all the help I can get!

Like many millennials, we’re big fans (and customers!) of the direct-to-consumer brands that have popped up over the last few years. Innovations in supply chain and distribution have allowed these brands to offer products that deliver on the “faster, better, cheaper” experience required to take market share and customer attention from incumbents. These brands are also aspirational in a way that is appealing to millennials and Gen Z by building a presence across social channels and cultivating a community feel.

How (and why) D2C brands are moving into physical retail — lessons learned from Casper, Warby…

The next year looks to be an exciting time for venture-backed marketplaces. A number of companies are expected to IPO in 2019 (Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb), with others (Instacart, Thumbtack, Wag, and Postmates) not far behind. We’ve already seen several marketplaces debut this month, with Farfetch and Eventbrite starting to trade and Upwork pricing its IPO last week.

Unpacking Upwork’s S-1: Metrics & Lessons for Marketplaces

It’s hard to imagine a business that does not require web development services in this day and age. Every company needs to be represented on the web, because that’s where people look for products and services. No matter what it is that you provide your clients with, physical or digital, your business will not succeed without a solid brand identity and online presence. The industry has grown and matured from its infancy in the 1990s and now we have numerous web development vendors offering services for businesses operating in various domains and providing website development using expansive technology stacks.

Top Web Development Companies in 2018

We spent last week in Philadelphia at <a href="https://podcastmovement.com/" target="_blank">Podcast Movement</a>, the largest annual conference for the podcast industry. We’re big fans of podcasting, and it’s been exciting to see the conference grow from a few hundred attendees in 2014 (with a $32k <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/680579142/podcast-movement-2014-national-podcast-conference" target="_blank">Kickstarter budget</a>) to 2,500+ attendees today. The event brought together podcasters and podcasting companies (Gimlet, Panoply), tech companies (Spotify, Google), media companies (NPR, Buzzfeed), and even consumer brands (the closing party was sponsored by Jack Daniel’s!).

State of Podcasts 2018: Takeaways from Podcast Movement on monetization, diversity, and discovery

The first half of 2018 has been difficult for crypto investors. The fervor that dominated the market in late 2017 has waned, leaving questions about regulatory uncertainty, ICO governance, and market manipulation. Even investing in “large cap” tokens, which seemed like a sure bet to some, has been revealed to hold sizable risk — Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple have all seen their prices slashed to less than a third of their highs.

The state of consumer blockchain from Cryptokitties to Blockstack (+ our market map!)

Last week, we attended our first <a href="http://vidcon.com/" target="_blank">VidCon</a>, an online video convention for creators, fans, and the media industry founded by <a href="https://medium.com/@hankgreen" data-anchor-type="2" data-user-id="4681f189a24e" data-action-value="4681f189a24e" data-action="show-user-card" data-action-type="hover" target="_blank">Hank Green</a> and <a href="https://medium.com/@johngreen" data-anchor-type="2" data-user-id="1ae2618da830" data-action-value="1ae2618da830" data-action="show-user-card" data-action-type="hover" target="_blank">John Green</a>. We were a bit late to the party — the conference started in 2010 with 1,400 attendees, and has since ballooned to 25,000+ people. It’s now widely recognized as a key destination for brands to reach the Gen Z demographic.

A VC’s top 10 takeaways from VidCon

Before we joined the investment team at CRV, we were undergrads at Stanford interested in helping student companies launch and scale. In 2015, we founded <a href="http://cardinalventures.org" target="_blank">Cardinal Ventures</a>, which has since become Stanford’s premier on-campus incubator. We graduated in 2016, but the program is still running under a new student team.

How to start a startup incubator (from the founders of Stanford’s Cardinal Ventures)

We also published this via CRV’s Medium page — check it out <a href="https://medium.com/@CRVVC/considering-the-telegram-ico-proceed-with-caution-4ee9dcdf84a" target="_blank">here</a>!

Considering the Telegram ICO? Proceed with caution

AI will change our work experience. Our mission is simple; to enable the adoption of AI in the workplace, through tools that are easy-to-use and implement. Our ‘AI Workmate’ integrates into daily operations, particularly within online meetings. By leveraging the rich context from every interaction, it crafts highly personalized and actionable insights. This reduces unnecessary meetings, streamlines follow-ups, and enhances transparency across distributed teams. Additionally, the Carv platform offers the capability to develop ‘Special Purpose Workmates.’ This approach allows businesses to strategically incorporate AI into their foundational processes.

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Building Enterprise Angular Apps? You’re Doing It Wrong (Unless You Use Standalone Components)

Creating an Angular Blog With Scully and Deploying on Netlify

Top Software Development Companies 2022 That Are Growing Fast

4 Standard Business Models for API Monetization

11 Reasons Why CEOs Got Fired And Companies Got Sued in 2020

The Future of Marketplaces: Reinventing the $10 Trillion Service Economy

The Passion Economy’s Worklife Balance

What Will the Next Era of Marketplaces Look Like?

Startup Metrics: 16 Ways to Measure Network Effects

The reports of Snapchat’s death have been greatly exaggerated…

The Future of Retail: Lessons Learned from Shoptalk 2019

Five Surprising Things in Lyft’s S-1

D2C 2.0: The Rise of Infrastructure

Commands & Events instead of CRUD — Part 1: Commands

Bird’s new Platform program and the rise of the “business in a box”

As a new mom — I take all the help I can get!

How (and why) D2C brands are moving into physical retail — lessons learned from Casper, Warby…

Unpacking Upwork’s S-1: Metrics & Lessons for Marketplaces

Top Web Development Companies in 2018

State of Podcasts 2018: Takeaways from Podcast Movement on monetization, diversity, and discovery

The state of consumer blockchain from Cryptokitties to Blockstack (+ our market map!)

A VC’s top 10 takeaways from VidCon

How to start a startup incubator (from the founders of Stanford’s Cardinal Ventures)

Considering the Telegram ICO? Proceed with caution

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