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As a reminder, our website aggregates and shares the latest content from 600+ VCs and industry analysts related to the startup world. This newsletter organizes and shares a selection of those posts related to a few key categories.

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Investment Themes, Theses & Outlooks

• Vices and Virtues: Investing and Human Nature (Reid Hoffman, Partner @ Greylock)

• DAOs: Communities of the Future (Lisa Xu, Investor @ FirstMark)

• Deep Dive: Using Technology to Solve Food Insecurity (Maria Gilfoyle, Summer Analyst @ K50 Ventures)

• The Overlooked Levels of the Creator Economy (Dan Runcie for A16Z Future)

Industry Developments & Analyses

• Our Take on the Data Deluge, and What’s Next (Dharmesh Thakker, Chiraag Deora & Jason Mendel, Battery Ventures)

• Uniswap Liquidity Mining Analysis (Shishi Feng & Vishesh Choudhry, Blockchain Capital)

• Talent, Value Distribution, & Liquidity in Crypto Protocols (Michael Dempsey, GP @ Compound)

• How To Empower Today’s Healthcare Consumer (Lee Shapiro, MP @ 7wire Ventures)

Operator Interviews, Case Studies & Best Practices

• Defining ‘Product-Market Fit’ (Sajith Pai, Director @ Blume Ventures)

• The Need for Two Types of Payback Period Calculations (Tomasz Tunguz, MD @ Redpoint)

• Why is usage-based pricing on the rise? (Kyle Poyar, Partner @ OpenView)

• Finding Language/Market Fit: How to Make Customers Feel Like You’ve Read Their Minds (Matt Lerner for First Round)

Additional Reads

• ‘Entrepreneur In Residence’ Used To Be One Of Silicon Valley’s Most Prestigious Titles. (Hunter Walk, GP @ Homebrew)

• An Intro to Market Monetarism (Erik Torenberg, Partner @ Village Global)

• #1 - Pharmacogenetics, gastroenterology, and other thoughts. (Nicole (Williams) Ruiz, Investor @ Compound)

• An emerging manager’s not-so-secret superpower (Halle Kaplan-Allen & Winter Mead)

• A Deep Dive on Equity (Evan Wray, Venture Partner @ TMV)

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