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Why finance-focused proptech startups will survive the downturn - NFX

NFX Managing Partner Pete Flint talks to Thumbtack co-founder &amp; CEO Marco Zappacosta about building billion dollar marketplaces.

NFX Managing Partner Pete Flint talks to Thumbtack co-founder & CEO Marco Zappacosta about building billion dollar marketplaces.

How Billion Dollar Marketplaces Are Built with Marco Zappacosta, Co-Founder &amp; CEO of Thumbtack

Launched in 2006 and headquartered in San Francisco, Eventbrite has navigated through the pandemic with a refocused strategy and a leaner cost base. In September of 2018, Julia took Eventbrite public, making her among the few women to lead the successful initial public offering of a technology start-up.

Taking Eventbrite Public with Julia & Kevin Hartz

&nbsp; &nbsp; Jeff Lawson, software developer turned CEO of Twilio, creates a new playbook for unleashing the full potential of software developers in any organization, showing how to help management utilize this coveted and valuable workforce to enable growth, solve a wide range of business problems, and drive digital transformation. General Partner at NFX Pete &hellip; Continue reading "Jeff Lawson on Ask Your Developer, with Pete Flint"

Jeff Lawson on Ask Your Developer, with Pete Flint

Pete Flint and Adam Grant discuss Adam's new book, Think Again, about the counterintuitive and competitive advantages of rethinking.

Anti-Patterns of 10x Thinking

Pete Flint (Managing Partner at NFX) separates startup risk into 2 separate buckets - external/market risk and internal/execution risk. Pete breaks down these groups further into several specific categories founders need to consider when evaluating the direction of their company.

Why Founders Should Take More Risk with Pete Flint

Almost every marketplace will face similar problems in one form or another, but I believe our solutions at Trulia were uniquely effective. By sharing our story, I hope to cut through the of vague (and bad) advice out there with a detailed account of how we built a multi-billion dollar, category leading marketplace in under 10 years; a story which, I hope, Founders will find both interesting and useful.

The NFX of Trulia: Building a $3.5 Billion Marketplace

Marketplace Founders commonly overfit their growth strategies to existing playbooks — which dramatically slows their growth.

Growth Frameworks For Your Marketplace

5 mental models distinguish "product-Founders" from successful "Founder-CEOs". Trulia Founder, Pete Flint, breaks them down for Founders everywhere.

How CEOs Think: 5 Mental Models to Shift from Founder to CEO

To help better understand startup timing, we’ve developed a framework we call the Critical Mass Theory of Startups

Why Startup Timing is Everything

In Real Estate 3.0, the very concept of ownership is what’s at play.  Ownership structures and mental models are both changing.

Real Estate 3.0 – The Ownership Revolution

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2-time unicorn founder/operator. Co-founder &amp; former CEO of Trulia, founding team at <a href="http://lastminute.com/">lastminute.com</a>. Born in UK.

2-time unicorn founder/operator · Co-founder & former CEO of Trulia · founding team at lastminute.com · Born in UK

Pete is a General Partner at NFX, a seed-stage venture firm based in San Francisco.

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Investing in Latam and US · Former founder/ operator · YC alum · Early Amazon Marketplace ·Born in Barcelona ·

Anna is a Principal at NFX focused on investing in LatAm, U.S., and Europe. She is a former founder and big-tech operator with 9+ years of experience across marketplaces, supply chain, logistics and consumer tech.

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A new bubble is forming for AI startups, but don't expect a crypto-like pop - NFX

Inside SF's artificial intelligence gold rush - NFX

A new generation of Silicon Valley designers is racing to build AI’s next big thing - NFX

Keith Rabois & James Currier examine how technology's greatest startups deviate from the standard Silicon Valley "playbook".

How Contrarians Think: The Early Days of Square, Yelp & PayPal with Keith Rabois

Li Jin created the term "The Passion Economy" - and today she analyzes the pros and cons of its underlying currency: attention.

The Passion Economy and Its Hidden Currency

James Currier & Eugene Wei (product lead at Amazon, Hulu, Oculus), discuss the underlying status games that drive us all—in technology and life.

Status Games: Engineering Scarcity in a World of Abundance

A discussion between Intuit Founder Scott Cook and NFX Managing Partner James Currier about the power of network effects.

NFX Podcast: Why Top Founders Understand Network Effects with Scott Cook, Founder of Intuit

You’re going to be asked by investors, key recruits, and journalists for your 5 core metrics.

5 Core Startup Metrics

Facebook stands alone in the depth and variety of network effects they’ve built, even though most go undetected. As a result, their defensibility is unparalleled.

Network Effects Predict the Future of Facebook

We work with our NFX Guild on this mental model for greatness from day 1. Now, we are sharing it with the rest of the startup community.

Find The Fast Moving Water

Network effects have been responsible for 70% of all the value created in technology since 1994. Founders who deeply understand how they work will be better positioned to build category-defining companies.
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Network effects have been responsible for 70% of all the value created in technology since 1994. Founders who deeply understand how they work will be better positioned to build category-defining companies.

The Network Effects Bible

We see the generative tech stack breaking down into 5 layers. As a founder, you have to decide which layer or layers you want to include in your product.

Generative AI Market Map and 5-Layer Tech Stack

The 16 Network Effects &amp; How They Actually Work

The 16 Network Effects & How They Actually Work

The Network Effects Manual: 16 Different Network Effects (and counting)

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5-time founder. Expert on network effects.

5-time founder ·  Expert on network effects · 

James is a General Partner at NFX, a seed-stage venture firm headquartered in San Francisco.

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4-time founder/operator. Founder of Playtika. Head of NFX Israel.

4-time founder/operator · Founding CEO of Playtika · Head of NFX Israel · 

Gigi is a General Partner at NFX, a seed-stage venture firm headquartered in San Francisco.

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Entrepreneur &amp; CEO @TwistBioscience. Fascinated by synbio and genetics.

As an early pioneer in the high-throughput synthesis and sequencing of DNA, Dr. LeProust is disrupting the process of gene synthesis to enable the exponential growth of synthetic biology applications in multiple fields including medicine, DNA data storage, agricultural biology, and industrial chemicals.

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Gita Reinitz M.Sc. is a Principal at NFX Bio. She previously was a Principal at Tech.Bio where she worked closely with companies like C2i Genomics, Pepper Bio, Nanocarry and more.

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The team at C2i Genomics is combining cutting-edge genomics and sophisticated AI to provide the world’s first whole-genome cancer intelligence platform, transforming the way cancer is monitored and treated.

Why C2i is the World's First Platform for Cancer Intelligence

Mammoth Bioscience's CEO and Cofounder walks through his Founder journey from early idea to freshly minted unicorn status.

A Mammoth Becomes A Unicorn: Inside a Scientist-Founder’s Journey from Pre-Seed to Series D

Biology is the most advanced technology on earth. It’s a nanotechnology that actually works. It’s been around for at least 4 billion years. And it scales.

Difference Between BioTech & TechBio

Research has reached a tipping point. We need scientists, tech people, entrepreneurs to increase the number of healthy, happy years of life.

From Sick Care to Health Care: Why We Need Longevity Startups

At NFX Bio, we see the need for platforms that move as fast as nature. Today, we're revealing key lessons on building platforms in TechBio.

What Doesn’t Kill You, Mutates And Tries Again

Tech Founders can capture huge value in TechBio, if they can learn to speak the language of biology.  Today, we're releasing our guide.

Tech Founders, Don’t Be Afraid of Bio

Making deals in TechBio is about forging authentic relationships. That's why today we're releasing our guide to building that network early.

Deal or Die: Your 3-Part Guide to Business Development in TechBio

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2-time scientist-founder. Founder at Genome Compiler, founding CEO of Tech.bio. Head of NFX Bio.

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Omri Amirav-Drory, Ph.D. is a GP at NFX Bio. He is a scientist and an operator who has founded, scaled, and invested in some of today’s most important new tech bio companies.

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Micha Kaufman, Founder & CEO of Fiverr, gives us access to the early days at Fiverr and what startup lessons he learned from idea to IPO.

Fiverr's Road to 797% Growth: The Decision Frameworks Behind Their Success

Only a few months ago did we start to see real shifts in hiring strategy. Founders and CEOs need to update their mental models now.

7 Mental Shifts For Hiring Now

Waze's former CEO reveals key insights for building networks from nothing.

The Insider Story of Waze

Power is shifting back to the users in web3 gaming. We are starting to see fundamental changes to the ownership of valuable in-game assets.

2 Changes to Virtual Goods in Web3 Gaming

In this NFX whiteboarding session, Gigi Levy-Weiss, Managing Partner at NFX, explains what it takes to be a strong startup CEO.

Whiteboard Breakdown: What Makes A Strong Startup CEO

NFX is making public the fundraising playbooks we share with our portfolio Founders.

The Non-Obvious Guide to Fundraising

The Founder and CEO of Wix teams up with NFX to deconstruct the systems Wix used to grow into a $B+ company with 5,000+ employees.

The Systems of Elite CEOs: Setting the Stage for Billion-Dollar Growth

Product love is unmistakable. But it doesn't just happen. It's engineered. You can create product-led growth with a three-part framework.

The 3 Phases of Product-Led Growth: The Triple Whale Method

We've always been bullish on building and investing in games. Now we see 5 trends, including generative AI, shaping the future of gaming.

The Next Era of Gaming and AI

The Next Era of Gaming and AI: And Why We’re (Even More) Bullish on Games

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Vitalik Buterin and Morgan Beller talk about longevity, chocolate, the Moon vs. Mars, that SF should be as big as Hong Kong, and more.

Vitalik Buterin on Space, Longevity, Mars & More (The "B-Side")

Vitalik’s unique points of view on politics, crypto, Americanism, GameStop, Wall Street Bets, Tesla, China, privacy, and more.

Vitalik Buterin on The Revolt of the Public (The "A-Side")

Web3 is changing more than technology and culture, it's also changing how we lead. NFX's Morgan Beller breaks down the new leadership skills in web3.

The 5 New Leadership Skills of Great Web3 Founders

We've seen 9 characteristics that make startup hiring in web3 different. Whether they present an advantage or a vulnerability is for you to decide.

Why Web3 Hiring Is Unique

Morgan Beller examines why community building is one of the most important skill sets for web 3.0 founders across all industries.

Building A "Community-First" Company

FTX’s demise dents, but doesn’t break the promise of crypto.

Crypto Is A Tool That Was Exploited.

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Co-founder of Diem≋ (fka Libra)

Co-founder of Diem≋(fka Libra) · DOG mom · Pianist · Forbes 30 under 30 ·

Morgan is the co-founder of Libra and was Head of Strategy for Novi, Facebook’s digital wallet for the Libra payment system. She originally joined Facebook as part of the Corporate Development team in 2017 where she worked on defining Facebook’s strategy around blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and decentralized technology.Prior to Facebook, Morgan ran Corporate Development at Medium where she led the Embedly acquisition and played a key role in developing Medium’s subscription strategy. She began her career on the Deal Team at Andreessen Horowitz.Morgan joined NFX in 2020 to invest in networks and marketplaces across a wide spectrum of sectors, most actively in web3. She loves working with technical Founders who are creating new markets.

Morgan is a General Partner at NFX, a seed-stage venture firm headquartered in San Francisco.

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