Startupy Issue #10: a laid back newsletter about very serious ideas

🥸  MOOD

🪐  HOT LINKS IN OUR UNIVERSE

Why Netflix Should Sell Ads by Ben Thompson

🕺  Curated in Netflix, New Media Business Models & The Attention Economy

New Deep Narratives: We Need New Stories of What it means to be Human by Phoebe Tickell

🕺  Curated in Tech & Society, Humane Tech & Storytelling

The Master Switch by Tim Wu

🕺  Curated in Future of Media

A spot on thread by Wes Kao

Strategy = Anything that contributes to potential behavior change 

Self expression = Everything else you should not say 

Feedback conversations should be about strategy, not self-expression.

🕺  Curated in Delivering Feedback

🕺  Curated in Personal Development

🕺  Curated in Ambition & Future of Talent

15 connections → 10 content, 1 company, 4 related topics

Top Author → Mental Models, Decision Making & Productivity

Sacra: Highlights on market reports of the most interesting startups

Top Author → Storytelling and Positioning, Humanitarianism, Existentialism & Psychology

Governance → unobvious perspectives on how crypto and the Internet change the systems and structures for decision-making, accountability, and control. 

57 connections → 43 content, 8 companies, 6 related topics

Consumer SaaS  → Insights on building consumer software subscription businesses

80 connections → 50 content, 20 companies, 10 related topics

47 connections → 8 content, 32 companies, 7 related topics

49 connections → 37 content, 7 companies, 5 related topics

🌱  COMMUNITY HEALTH

Welcoming Jenny Nicholson, Tom Bonin, Avni Patel Thompson, and Arpit Choudury to our curator community this week and virtual high-fiving Yufa Li, Sixian Lim, Brie Wolfson, and Fernando del Campo for their contributions.

✨  CURATOR SPOTLIGHT

 

 

Why is the future of funding interesting? 

How ideas are funded to evolve from concept to practise and who gets to bring ideas forward is an interest that has seen me through various careers, from working closely with founders as an angel investor to my time grantmaking. Capital is a tool, after all, and there’s clearly room for new approaches. And it’s a fertile moment, from the rise of solo GPs to Stonks and Party Round, the rise of interest in public goods funding in crypto through communities like Gitcoin and champions like Tyler Cowen funding talent philanthropically. Together, this set of diversified approaches should mean a diversified set of people who bring forwards ideas, and that we have more mechanisms beyond pure venture capital or government cash to consider how we address society’s hardest problems. It’s just exciting. 

 

I'm not a huge podcast fan but loved Matt Clifford's conversation with Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross on talent - so rich on how we think about individual and collective skill, and how the winners emerge.

 

This great deep dive into solo GPs, who are increasingly managing larger pots of money than conventional funds, with potentially very different processes and outcomes. And this piece on how Lawtrades raised their series A using new gen tools like Angellist roll-ups, Journey, Stonks and more.

 

I’m a Nadia Eghbal maximalist from her ethnographic study of open source communities to her new research in crypto philanthropy; so I always keep an eye on her website.

 

In web3, I’m closely following Utopia Labs (even or especially in a decentralised world you need a tight finance and people stack. Disclosure: I'm an angel investor) and Optimism (new public goods funding).