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You may want to look at the guidance from a16z. https://future.a16z.com/emerging-architectures-modern-data-infrastruct… They are basically recommending picking one of the big three: Snowflake, Bigquery, or Redshift. Using standard connectors. Once your data is in one of the big three, you can use any analysis tool. I have been involved in this space for some time and am heavily involved with Salesforce. In my corner of the world, I still lean heavily on SQL Server and Cdata/Dbamp which allows me to replicate and write back to Salesforce via SQL batch jobs. Tableau Online has also been a game changer as it allows business folks to do a lot of the heavy lifting. Our BI team now consists of three senior tech folks and 12 business analysts.

From the blog on the Fast Grants program they did earlier- "57% of respondents told us that they spend more than one quarter of their time on grant applications." Also, "According to the NIH, a grant application will typically result in a decision after something between 200 and 600 days." The whole post is worth reading in light of this new announcement. https://future.a16z.com/what-we-learned-doing-fast-grants/

Lots of people asking about DAOs. So here are a couple of resources you can look up. To look at a large list of different DAOs with info about what tech stack they run, how big the treasuries are, etc., look here: https://deepdao.io/#/deepdao/dashboard Here is a good article written in layman's terms (it's CNBC after all) about the concept and current landscape of DAOs: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/25/what-are-daos-what-to-know-about-the-n… If you want to get a peek into organizational minutiae that DAOs deal with the CabinDAO does a great of documenting it. For example: https://creators.mirror.xyz/Le68ptgaqsBh1g6w8UqqVL2kIrA_Lqn37bELMO-W_-… And here is a mega-collection of resources on the ever-evolving landscape by a16z: https://future.a16z.com/dao-canon/ I am a happy member of two DAOs in case some people think it is a conflict of interest.

There are amazing posts but this one has a lot of confirmation bias: https://future.a16z.com/cohort-based-courses/ The article is promoting the idea of cohort-based courses written by Wes Kao (who is the co-founder of Maven, the first platform for cohort-based courses. She is also co-founder of the altMBA. )

You're taking a lot of flak here, but I think you're basically correct. (Even if cross-game NFTs never become a thing.) The debate reminds me of when Napster looked, to many, like it would end the sales of pre-recorded music, since music can be copied identically for free. Obviously such predictions turned out to be wrong. I think they would have turned out to be right if there was no such thing as copyright law. But there is. People were prosecuted, and over time the prosecutions made a difference. They helped it make sense to invest money in creating well-designed, easy-to-use streaming services. And in the end, for most people, it was more convenient and risk-free to get music from such services than to pirate it. It was worth the cost. Over time, if people spend real money on NFTs, the legal system will evolve to better protect people's purchases. For now, if two people claim to be the creator of a given artwork which is the subject of an NFT, and create two NFTs, only one of them will have the actual copyright. That should provide a basis for legal action. As I said, I'm not sure cross-game NFTs will ever get past the hype stage. But I have been to a museum where truly beautiful NFT art was on display. I haven't bought any art in many years but I can certainly imagine that my next art purchase could be that kind of NFT. By purchasing it, I am helping the creator in "1000 True Fans"[1] manner, and I am, in the creator's view, which is the only one with any legitimacy…

actually neat idea! Google is worse and worse for finding useful information and I think that community curation can be a better way to find knowledge. actually here's an article i like on that topic https://future.a16z.com/the-future-of-search-is-boutique/ I'd say you don't need ranking in the sense that it is done in Google now. You need to able to make clusters of information based on searches and let people dig in. like "react keynotes" or "routing in react".

It's popular on HN because it's VC-backed, and VCs regularly "pump" their investments by writing articles and posting them to HN. Here's one from A16z about the idea of monetizing passion projects: https://future.a16z.com/passion-economy/ I'd wager it's also popular on HN because of the current debate about free speech online and 'cancel culture'. Substack is the upstart here against the stodgy big media status quo, so that will always pull in some level of ideological support.

Atherton is one of the most anti-building places in the world and is populated by billionaire folk like Marc Andreessen who decry how anti-building many parts of the US has become. https://future.a16z.com/podcasts/its-time-to-build/

Also have a look at Future / a16z a list of DAO resources and reference articles: https://future.a16z.com/dao-canon/ There's a handful of articles about getting started in DAOs.

There was a really interesting podcast about them from a16z a few days ago too https://future.a16z.com/podcasts/play-to-earn-gaming-and-how-work-is-e…

I don't want to know how much money was paid for these logos https://future.a16z.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Logo-Transformation…

As an example of diversity of approaches, look at the Fast Grants program: https://future.a16z.com/what-we-learned-doing-fast-grants/ It was created in 2020 to give grants for COVID-related research. Its big selling point was that it would give out money fast: very little paperwork to fill out, and yes/no decisions made within 48 hours. They were surprised to discover that even researchers at top universities were having a hard time getting funding out of the usual institutions like the NIH, which were adapting very slowly to the pandemic. They seem to have done very well in speeding up research, at least with the amount of money they had, just by giving out the funding in a way that few-to-none of the existing institutions would.

I'm half way through the book and found it quite good if you are interested in strategy, private equity because it talks about relatively recent events. There's also a recent a16z podcast with Dell, Martin Casado and Andreessen that I enjoyed https://future.a16z.com/podcasts/cloud-wars-company-wars-play-nice-but…

Eugene Wei on the az16 podcast speaks about TikTok’s use of music in a social media experience. Of course, this is an extension of the capabilities of the iPhone to consume media, and also create and share it. Stunning. https://future.a16z.com/podcasts/algorithm-friendly-design-creativity-…

This is just a rehash of https://future.a16z.com/instant-games/ which itself is a rehash of what the co-founder of Playco stated.

The quality of content is incredible. I've read 3 blog posts so far and found this particularly relevant for Budibase: https://future.a16z.com/north-star-metrics

If you're looking for more information on what this is about than the landing page provides, the "Pitch Us" page expands on their editorial vision: https://future.a16z.com/pitch-us/

Related: https://future.a16z.com/its-time-to-build/

Why should I care if the teenage son of a wealthy banker in Switzerland wants to blow his Dad's money speculating on NFT's? How about the sons and daughter of wealthy Arabs in the oil countries? Surely it doesn't matter if I, as a member of the Silicon Valley elite, take them for a ride and teach them a valuable lesson while profiting handsomely? Just remember, when you're playing with this kind of a crowd, this late in the game -- it's all about being the last person holding the bag. Do you know that the phrase means? And do you want to be that person? I've been pretty skeptical until I had a recent epiphany brought on by a16z's enthusiasm for the market. Which is utterly and transparently deranged, BTW. Either that, or very cynically and skillfully devised to promote businesses with the specific intent of fleecing down brave, optimistic people very much like yourself. I'm not exaggerating here; just look a the opening paragraph of one of their recent pronouncements on this subject: https://future.a16z.com/the-future-of-work-daos-crypto-networks/

Headlines need statements. If you disagree, consider if I'd written: Headlines that assert a statement grab readers, you probably wouldn't care enough to still be reading. Write the headline just as you think it with all its logic and reason, and then conjugate it into an assertion with a begged question. Maybe they're going for a more quiet experience than clickbait, but since people read for sensation, and the more people that read something the more they will have in common, I'd say conjugate your headlines. People Overlook Subtractive Changes. https://future.a16z.com/the-untapped-potential-of-subtraction/ Low Switching Costs are Driving DeFi. https://future.a16z.com/cryptos-fourth-wave-defi-poised-for-breakthrou… Nobody Knows Where Their Stuff Is. https://future.a16z.com/beyond-the-meme-ever-given-supply-chains-and-t… Bubbles Are Statistical Time Travel. https://future.a16z.com/well-behaved-bubbles-history-innovation/ etc.