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a16z Podcast: Engineering a Revolution at WorkFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-04-10 23:39
From file cabinets to typewriters, spreadsheets and word processing the tools we use for work change not only what we do, but the culture of our workplace. Steven Sinofsky, a veteran of building software tools for productivity, discusses the latest r...
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a16z Podcast: China and TechFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-03-30 01:26
China has been a tough market to crack for U.S. internet companies. One of the key reasons is China has its own crop of hugely successful and highly innovative companies. Andreessen Horowitz’s Chris Dixon, Connie Chan and Benedict Evans highlight the...
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a16z Podcast: Oculus and the (Mind-Blowing) Reality of Virtual RealityFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-03-28 19:22
Up until now virtual reality has been a disappointment for all those people pining for their own personal holodeck. But advances in the components required to create a truly immersive digital 3D experience have finally broken through much of what has...
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a16z Podcast: The Rise of Full Stack StartupsFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-03-27 20:31
Suppose you develop a new technology that is valuable to some industry. The old approach was to sell or license your technology to the existing companies in that industry. The new approach is to build a complete, end-to-end product or service that by...
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a16z Podcast: Searching for Mobile’s Own PageRankFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-03-24 22:04
The mobile experience is still in its 1995 Yahoo phase, a sea of apps and websites without an easy way to find what you want and need on your smartphone. What will be mobile’s version of PageRank, the algorithm that made the web manageable? What is t...
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a16z Podcast: Where is the Technology That "Matters?" Right HereFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-03-21 22:36
There is a recurring theme that the tech industry is busy cranking out fluffy social apps rather than hardcore technology. Not the case, say Chris Dixon, Benedict Evans and Balaji Srinivasan. Not only are tech entrepreneurs going after the deficienci...
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a16z Podcast: The State of the Bitcoin Ecosystem, and a Theory on SatoshiFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-03-20 21:32
Andreessen Horowitz's Chris Dixon and Balaji Srinivasan discuss the state of the Bitcoin ecosystem now that the Mt. Gox dust has settled. What's next in crypto-currency, and a theory on Bitcoin creator Satoshi (not Dorian) Nakamoto. ...
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a16z Podcast: Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already BegunFrom 🇺🇸 a16z Podcast, published at 2014-03-13 22:08
Apple and Google won the mobile OS war, but the next war – to build big businesses on top of Android and iOS – is just beginning. Andreessen Horowitz Partner Benedict Evans untangles what the next phase of mobile means for entrepreneurs, Apple and Go...