SelectQuote: The Platonic Ideal of the Marketing-to-Sales Middleman
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Every Platform Business Looks Like Local Politics
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The Residential Real Estate Market is Basically Fine, For a Bad Reason
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Jam: Is Password-Sharing the Future of Marketing or the Last Gasp of Piracy?
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One Company's Net Dollar Expansion Is Somebody Else's Lower Gross Margin
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Private Equity and Software are Competing to Eat the World
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Lebed, Redux
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Foxes, Hedgehogs, VC Alpha, Politics
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Read this article →Last updated February 19, 2020. I’m Byrne, and I write about things that don’t mean-revert. (If you didn’t find this post via Medium, you probably got to it through my newsletter.) The world is full of phenomena that move in cycles — countries rise and fall, economies speed
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Coins, Counting, Progress Studies
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Casper, Learn to Code, and Dengism with American Characteristics
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Culture Week!
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