9th Exercise – Watch Paul Graham of Y Combinator
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7th Exercise – Watch Dave McClure’s 2014 Stanford Talk on Startup Funding Landscape
6th Exercise – Think about tweet by Marc Andreesen re: 7B empowered smartphone users
The question is “…what are 7 billion free, empowered, connected people with net-connected supercomputers going to build by end of century?”
My initial thoughts: more neat and valuable projects like Linux will emerge to tackle different types of problems. Benedict Evans stated that Uber did not exist when iPhone arrived in his 2014 keynote but I think that there may have been people with Uber/Lyft ideas who did not get opportunity to productize and build a business. I recall reading stories of crackdown on Los Angeles Koreatown drivers taxing people around. What if these entrepreneurs had tools to develop around apps. As barriers to start new companies disappear, we may see the most interesting apps yet – and quicker – by more non-tech centric demographic. Yes, software is eating the world.
4th Exercise – Follow @davemcclure + @500Startups
Dave McClure has an aggressive global view of startups and openly informs and schools the industry with slides like Building Startup Ecosystem.
If you follow @davemcclure and @500Startups on Twitter, please consider mentioning “@charlesjo says to follow you” 
It’s a personal project on social networking and community growth.
(Of course, all welcome to follow me too @charlesjo).
Next exercise coming up soon. Feedback is always welcome!
Charles
3rd Exercise – Watch Ben Horowitz Talk on Startups
2nd Exercise – Follow @a16z Team on Twitter
2nd exercise: Everyone follow @a16z and the entire team at Andreesen Horowitz:
@pmarca, @bhorowitz,@cdixon, @w_scottweiss, @jeff_jordan,@peter_levine, @LarsLuv, @balajis.
The team writes a lot of interesting things on Twitter ranging from macroeconomics to tracking smart phone growth and market shares to robots in a future when human labor is not needed for us to survive.
If you follow @a16z, please consider mentioning “@charlesjo says to follow you @a16z.” It’s a personal project on social networking and community growth.
(Of course, all welcome to follow me too @charlesjo).
Next exercise coming up soon. Feedback always welcome!
Charles
First exercise – everyone follow Marc Andreesen on Twitter @pmarca
First exercise: Everyone follow Marc Andreesen on Twitter @pmarca . Join Twitter or revive your account and follow the guy who created the Web browser and now invests in startups at the highly respected venture capital firm, Andreesen Horowitz . I personally know technology executives with perfect resumes whose dream job would be to work there or get funded by them. He has very optimistic forward thinking ideas about startups, technology, and the market. See who is bold enough to contribute their own thoughts and if they seem interesting, then follow them too. I encourage everyone to join the conversation. Encourage your friends to do same.
(Of course, all welcome to follow me too @charlesjo).
Next exercise coming up soon. Feedback always welcome!
Charles Jo