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The danger of the mediocre success when testing startup hypotheses (2023)
Or, how to ensure you learn absolutely nothing.
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Minsky Moments in Venture Capital
Markets rise, and markets fall. This much, at least, is well-known. But why do market cycles occur? What causes the pendulum to swing from euphoria to crisis and back? Hyman Minsky was a 20th-century economist whose ‘financial instability hypothesis’ is probably the best-known explanation for the boom and bust cycles…
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The Economics of Data Businesses
How data businesses start, and how they keep going, and growing, and growing.