Digest #36 | Community Operating Systems, BNPL & Payment Ramifications, and more

Aug 8th – August 14th, 2021

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Investment Themes, Theses & Outlooks

• The Evolution of Community Operating Systems (Han Wang, Summer Associate @ Bain Capital Ventures)

• Consumer Marketplaces: Towards Curation (Ross Barry, EIR @ Prehype)

Industry Developments & Analyses

• Buy Now, Pay Later & Payment Ramifications (John Street Capital)

• The ultimate guide to social commerce (Ana Andjelic, The Sociology of Business)

• The creator economy is in crisis. Now let’s fix it. (Li Jin, MP @ Atelier)

• Status Monkeys (Packy McCormick, Not Boring)

• Curators All the Way Down (Gaby Goldberg & Jesse Lee)

Case Studies and Best Practices for Operating

• Ask a Seed VC: How much should I spend to find product-market fit? (Anthony Ha & Nihal Mehta, Eniac Ventures)

• An Exact Breakdown of How One CEO Spent His First Two Years of Company-Building (Sam Corcos, First Round Review)

• If You’re Not Sure Whether Your Current Investors Would Give You More Money, The Answer Is Likely “No” (Hunter Walk, GP @ Homebrew)

• Grownups in the Room, Part 2: High-Performing Startup Boards (Emily Green, All Raise)

• 6 Lessons learned from funding startups with long sales cycles (David Frankel, MP @ Founder Collective)

• Coming Into the Spotlight: How Customer Success Can Turbo-Charge Subscription Growth (Cathy Gao, Partner @ Sapphire Ventures)

Additional Reads

• 9 Ideation Frameworks of Top Founders (NFX Team)

• Advancing Equity Compensation & The War For Talent (Michael Dempsey, GP @ Compound)

• Trillion Dollar Paint Job (Mike Solana, VP @ Founders Fund)

• Punching Up (Naithan Jones, Partner @ A16Z)

• Software is Eating the World, Revisited (Erik Torenberg, Partner @ Village Global)

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