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Picture This! 7 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
I recently blogged about the “Series A Crunch” and recommended ways for entrepreneurs to try to avoid its ugly clutches. But I soon discovered a glaring omission in my recommendations. I had address...
People Marketplaces 22 Jul 2013 | 09:20 pm
It seems like there has been a veritable explosion of companies that are leveraging technology to build “people marketplaces” that provision various services. On one side of these marketplaces, consu...
The Series A Round is the New Series B Round 20 Jun 2013 | 02:30 am
The venture industry is awash with talk of the “Series A Crunch”, where it’s getting progressively more challenging for seed companies to land follow-on financing. In my short two-year tenure as a fu...
The Series A Round is the New Series B Round 20 Jun 2013 | 02:30 am
The venture industry is awash with talk of the “Series A Crunch”, where it’s getting progressively more challenging for seed companies to land follow-on financing. In my short two-year tenure as a fu...
Godzilla vs. Mothra, The Sequel 9 May 2013 | 08:00 pm
Amazon and Google are on a collision course. When I was at eBay, we had a belief that no one was going to compete with us by replicating exactly what we were doing. We had first mover advantages and ...
Tilting With the Crowd 18 Apr 2013 | 04:30 pm
For those of you who don’t yet know this about me, I am a basketball fanatic. Twice a week for the past 10 or so years, I’ve organized a basketball game at Stanford. At the end of the year each year...
This Julep is Mint! 5 Mar 2013 | 09:30 pm
We at a16z believe we are seeing the “creative destruction” of traditional physical retailers by their online competitors. At a high level, this is happening for two reasons. First, e-commerce compa...
Why Malls Are Getting Mauled 22 Dec 2012 | 06:00 am
Online is clearly taking share from brick and mortar…this is likely to continue —International Council of Shopping Centers, last week America has too many malls. I’ve recently blogged that many tradit...
When Black Friday Comes… 13 Dec 2012 | 10:00 pm
Competition, send ‘em south. If they’re gonna drown put a hose in their mouth —Mark Knopfler, Boom Like That If you’re a physical retailer and you sell the same SKU’s as Amazon, you will not have a Ha...
E-commerce 2.0 16 Nov 2012 | 03:06 am
We at a16z could not possibly be more bullish on the prospects for e-commerce, and we believe growth is poised to accelerate. Part of the reason for this is due to competitive market dynamics. As I’v...
