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Interesting to see the _very_ strong parallels to Japanese culture here. For everyone arguing about whether this is true of all Chinese culture, of course there is innovative think…

They should start a credit card business. Rakuten did this to great effect in Japan. Use the credit card, get points you can use for Uber. Customer acquisition is as cheap as putti…

Japan, Finland, and I'm sure other cultures are completely fine with this. The West (and in particular the US) are the prudes about this one.

Why does funding a company have to mean that you are forever beholden to the CEO's bad decisions? Extreme this is not, and founders should take this as a signal that Benchmark will…

Until an exit, he hasn't made them anything except paper billionaires. If anywhere on the road to an exit Travis or any other CEO does anything unbecoming of a steward of the capit…

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I raised a seed round (500K) in two tiers, on tier late last year, and another this Summer. All the same terms including valuation. Basically, after raising 350K last year, which I…

The ones that are good at building something (or at least focused on it) won't be wasting their time trying to "give back" (read: find other opportunities). Zuckerberg did some ver…

With the recent backlash from advertisers against contentious content, the push towards live, and with Biz coming back, it seems like Twitter has set everything in place to "pivot"…