D’Arcy Coolican

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Investment Partner @a16z. Founder @FrankTrusts. Tortured fan @MapleLeafs

The rise of vertical-specific software tailored to lawyers, personal trainers, recruiters, hair stylists, and everyone else striking out on their own.
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The best product in a category is one with real community & social interaction

I call them social+ products

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One of the holy grails in the newco world is to build out a digital platform that successfully serves the needs of a broad number of adjacent verticals, and become the definitive platform in its space. We know the now-canonical early examples of this: Amazon, eBay, Craigslist. And we also know that
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A bold proposal: You go to college for free, then pay back the school after graduation—but *only* if you get a job and meet a certain salary threshold. It's called an income share agreement, and Austen Allred thinks it's the future of education.
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You can’t predict the future, but you can get close by paying attention to the zeitgeist. In this talk from a16z Summit, D’Arcy Coolican shares how to create products that follow macro trends and and gives examples of current trends capturing the attention of the media, investors, and talent teams t
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The Dynamics of Network Effects - Andreessen Horowitz
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