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This newsletter curates a selection of posts featured on the website each week.

Investment Themes & Theses

• Every Company is a Healthcare Company: why employers are leading a trillion-dollar disruption (Michelle Nacouzi, VC @ Northzone)

• Orchestration Software: Unlocking Superpowers for SMBs (Chris Cheng, VC @ Obvious Ventures)

2022 Outlooks & 2021 Retrospectives

• 2022 Consumer Trends (Coefficient Capital & The New Consumer)

• 22 Healthcare Predictions For 2022 (Meera Clark & Vishal Vasishth, Obvious Ventures)

• Spotlight on Consumer-Directed Technologies: 2022 Digital Health Predictions (7wire Ventures Team)

• Ecommerce Trends That Shaped 2021 (Lia Zhang & Brian Schechter, Primary Ventures)

• Looking Back at the Fintech IPOs of 2021 (Emily Man, VC @ Redpoint)

• 🌏 2021 in review, 22 perspectives for 2022 (Kim Zou & Sophie Purdom, Climate Tech VC)

Industry Developments & Analyses

• The Business of Space (Jake Tauscher, VC @ G2VP)

• The Benefits and Drawbacks of Web 2 (Matt Cohen & Dom Lau, Ripple Ventures)

• 🌍 An ocean and atmosphere of CO2 removal #82 (Kim Zou & Sophie Purdom, Climate Tech VC)

• Creators, Culture, & Crypto: State of the Union (Rex Woodbury, Principal @ Index)

Guides, Case Studies, & Best Practices for Operating

• Come for the Tool, Stay for the Exchange: Bootstrapping Liquidity in the Private Markets (David Haber, GP @ A16Z)

• Building a Board: What I Wish I Had Known (Ryan Caldbeck, Founder @ CircleUp)

• The 3 Levels of Goal Setting That Every Startup Needs (Matt Hoffman & Tania Luna, M13)

• Navigating Your Way to a Solid Series A: Part II (Emma Silverman, Principal @ TMV)

Additional Reads

• The Fifth SaaS Correction (Tomasz Tunguz, MD @ Redpoint)

• I’m Successful In Tech Because I Managed To Visit The Future Without A Time Machine (Hunter Walk, GP @ Homebrew)

• Charting the rise of the student builder (Alexandra Sukin & Sakib Dadi, Bessemer)

• Variant Xi (Mike Solana, VP @ Founders Fund)

• Playing Startup Versus Building a Company (Charlie O’Donnell, GP @ Brooklyn Bridge Ventures)

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