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Investment Themes, Theses, & Outlooks

• Leading With Software When Building A Lending Business (David Haber, GP @ A16Z)

• Frontier Tech Developments (Nicole Ruiz, VC @ Compound)

• Modern Data Warehouses Expanding Horizons for New Data Architectures (Priyanka Somrah, VC @ Work-Bench)

• 3 Things: Walk Scheduler, Link Aggregator, Weighted Sweatshirts (Elaine Zelby, Partner @ SignalFire)

Industry Developments & Analyses

• E-commerce is dead. (Erik de Stefanis, Partner @ Interlace)

• The 2022 Cloud 100 Benchmarks (Bessemer Ventures Team)

• Influencer Marketing in the Age of iOS 14.5 (Amanda Morgan, Lerer Hippeau)

• What in the world is happening to fintech? (Manuel Silva, GP @ Mouro Capital)

• A paean to fintech's resilience (Akash Bajwa, VC @ Earlybird)

Guides, Case Studies, and Best Practices for Operating

• Bridge Loans (Fred Wilson, GP @ USV)

• Your guide to the first PLG sales hire (Kyle Poyar, Partner @ OpenView)

• Scaling Up AI Businesses: What We’ve Learned So Far (Lonne Jaffe, MD @ Insight)

• Trying To Reduce Churn Rate? Avoid These 3 Common Myths (Reforge)

Additional Reads

• Grabbing the Bear by the Horns (Rex Woodbury & Kyle Harrison)

• The World of Consumer Subscription Benchmarks (Ben Futoriansky, VC @ Cobalt)

• Do PE Acquisitions of Public Startups Imply We've Hit a Pricing Bottom? (Tomasz Tunguz, MD @ Redpoint)

• 2022 Best of the Midwest: Startup Cities Rankings (Victor Gutwein, MP @ M25 Group)

• Seed Stage Founders Undervalue Angels With Marketing & Comms Expertise (Hunter Walk, GP @ Homebrew)

• Rare Skills (Morgan Housel, Partner @ Collaborative Fund)

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