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Cloud-Client Computing - The cycle of centralized to distributed computing

The entire history of the computing industry ebbs and flows between centralized and distributed computing. We started with mainframes with terminals on the end, so that everything ran centrally in the...

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Online Marketplaces - They may look different, but the same core principles...

We’re continuing to see tremendous innovation in marketplaces. The first generation of net companies saw a few big horizontal marketplace winners like eBay and Craigslist. But entrepreneurs are...

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Security - You've already been hacked

There are two things now driving the security industry: 1. The bad guys are already inside. 2. New platforms — cloud and mobile — have arrived. …Both are forcing a different set of technologies, and...

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Containers - The containerization of code is finally here

Imagine carrying around a bag of cell phones everywhere because you needed to use a new and separate piece of hardware for every single app — games, email, etc. — that you currently run on a single...

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The Full-Stack Startup - Everything we've said about this trend, all in one...

Q: So what’s a full stack startup? You’ve mentioned that it’s a new, important trend, and a pattern of startups we’ve been seeing over the past couple of years. Chris Dixon: The old approach startups...

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Sensorification of the Enterprise - What comes after the consumerization of IT

A few years ago a bunch of consumer internet companies had an “Oh, shit” moment around mobile. They saw all their traffic coming in from mobile rather than the web. They redid everything to take...

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Virtual Reality - A new creative medium where the default state is belief

In the VR community, “presence” is a term of art. It’s the idea that once VR reaches a certain quality level your brain is actually tricked  —  at the lowest, most primal level  —  into believing that...

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16 Things

We don’t invest in themes; we invest in special founders with breakthrough ideas. Which means we don’t make investments based on a pre-existing thesis about a category. That said, here are a few of the...

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We Need to Break the Mobile Duopoly. We Need a 3rd Mobile OS - by Peter Levine

We already know that there are two dominant mobile operating systems out there. But the current situation doesn’t really allow anyone to experiment, not without going through the interests and lenses...

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a16z Podcast: Tech Trends Changing Gaming - with Justin Bailey, Herman...

  We know that the gaming industry — in some ways like but in other ways unlike the music industry — has been changing due to the internet and especially technologies around crowdfunding, online...

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On ‘Dark Talent’, MOOCs, Universities, and Startups: An Interview with Our...

Many of the most successful companies that a16z has been associated with have their foundations in academia -- from routers to data science to the web browser itself. That's why we now have a...

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What All the Recent Tech Company Splits Say about the Future of Cloud...

It’s not everyday that $100-plus billion companies split themselves in two. Late last month, eBay decided to spin off its fast-growing payments division, PayPal; last week, Hewlett-Packard moved to...

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Mobile Is Eating the World - by Benedict Evans

[slideshare id=40841467&doc=201410wsjdbe-141028165857-conversion-gate01] There is no point in drawing a distinction between the future of technology and the future of mobile. They are the same. In...

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How Mobile is Enabling Tech to Outgrow the Tech Industry - by Benedict Evans

[vimeo 110428014 w=720 h=404]   Here is the full audio and visuals of Benedict Evans' presentation on the future of mobile (which happens also to be the future of tech). The talk was delivered at...

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DevOps - Repeating the historical context on this trend...

DevOps is more than just a methodology. It’s a must-have skill set for the modern programmer -- and is increasingly becoming its own department as well (the subject of much debate). And the growth of...

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Internet of Things - What happens when ordinary old things become connected?

Something often overlooked when we talk about all the shiny new connected gadgets emerging out of the ‘Internet of Things’ is what happens to all the old things when they're connected to the internet?...

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Insurance - Software rewrites insurance

Insurance is all about distributing risk. With dramatic advances in software and data, shouldn’t the way we buy and experience our insurance products change dramatically? Software will rewrite the...

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Crowdfunding - Goes mobile and mainstream

Until now, crowdfunding has mostly been an occasional, desktop sort of experience. We might back a new gadget launch or a charity a few times a year, but it’s not an everyday thing. With a smartphone...

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Online Video - It's only getting started now

YouTube does a fantastic job of generating zillions of video views for its community. Yet it does a relatively poor job of helping their users earn money. There hasn’t been any serious competition that...

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Digital Health - Software doesn't have an MD

Today you’d accept without hesitation that the kid in the garage without a degree could write an email front-end that analyzed your email, told you the best time of day to reply, or did something else...

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