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The Web3 Marketing Stack: The Next Big Wave in Crypto

Tom Tunguz

Ad Networks educate users about new projects while providing revenue to Publishers, application developers and content publishers. These ad networks’ will use public wallet information to target users. NFTs, governed by smart contracts, reward users for engaging with ads with token drops or other on-chain benefits.

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Economics in the Sometimes Strange World of Web3

Tom Tunguz

Blockchains are databases application developers use to build novel user experiences. They provide faster & less expensive transactions for application developers. Just as hundreds of different databases exist in web2, different blockchains have evolved in web3.

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Who is Eran Zinman | Co-CEO of SaaS Leader Monday.com

SaaStr

He created a new category in work management by focusing on user experience, platform extensibility, and sustainable growth. For SaaS founders, monday.com’s playbook is required reading – especially if you’re going after established markets.

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Investing in Upstash

Andreessen Horowitz

About a year ago, we started seeing Upstash show up as a popular key-value store choice for new applications. Developers loved the intuitive onboarding and the meticulous design of the SDKs. A year later, Upstash powers caching and messaging for tens of thousands of production applications across four different products.

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Design’s New Frontier: The IRL Era

Tom Tunguz

But more than an idea, it carried a design aesthetic which focused on the user, user experience and engagement. After all, users wouldn’t participate on a hostile site. We’re no longer in the Web 2.0 The IRL era is all about mating technology and the real world. In Web 2.0,

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The Most Important Feature In KitKat No One is Talking About

Tom Tunguz

In addition to creating a much better user experience, deep-linking enables five important secular trends in mobile: First, mobile application developers will use mobile search engine optimization to re-engage users. Search is a user action, a pull, laden with intent. Second, mobile commerce will boom.

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The Developer Economy: Power to the Coders

Tom Tunguz

Of course, this is to say nothing of the multibillion-dollar business Amazon has built providing infrastructure to developers. Moreover, the developer ecosystem has become strategic to cash-rich monoliths. Facebook acquired mobile app development platform Parse to attract and retain mobile application developers for Facebook’s benefit.