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[...] of the challenges are likely off. — David Aron Levine (@davealevine) April 20, 2014 Source Tweets: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 [...]

[...] . Finally, in 1887, Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs. These and many more described here. Source Tweets: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, 11 Responses: @pmarca Yep,same regulations that brought us $2.50/min [...]

[...] colored view of what the past was actually like.— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) August 04, 2014 Source Tweets: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 [...]

[...] depends on having # friends > enemies.— Steven I. Weiss (@steveniweiss) August 10, 2014 Source Tweets: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 [...]

[...] generous many of the leading participants are (no, I don’t mean me.) When I arrived in Silicon Valley in Jan 1994, I sought out all of the written material I could on startups and venture capital. [...]

[...] just too good not to. A graphic illustration from BusinessWeek showing who’s coming to Silicon Valley. Image originally published on BusinessWeek One third of Silicon Valley startups are founded [...]

[...] right now. Apple isn’t getting disrupted *yet*, but will be soon. This is what many in Silicon Valley believe, but Apple does not. The most interesting one: The current theory of disruption is [...]

[...] Come on, Silicon Valley, you can do better than this 1950′s + 1960′s + 1970′s + 1980′s + early 1990′s view of [...]

[...] @B_Eichengreen: “Secular stagnation is an economist’s Rorschach Test. It means different things to different people.” Contrary [...]

[...] A few tentative conclusions on secular stagnation and our economy, with a vigorous disclaimer that I am far from a macro economist. It seems [...]

[...] to productively invest capital? Isn’t that world the opposite of the “secular stagnation”/”innovation is dead” world so many economists believe we are in? Isn& [...]

[...] Fascinating overview of the secular stagnation hypothesis from the Bank of Italy (In English). After reviewing recent long-run projections, [...]

[...] Jared Bernstein on the productivity puzzle of robots eating all the jobs (or not): Productivity growth was up 1% last year and has averaged 0.8% since 2011, a smooth trend through the numbers. [...]

[...] pic.twitter.com/qTtvXkpnn8 — Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) December 29, 2014 7/Further, productivity growth may not be as bad as we think, in era of software/digital/dematerialization. #stag [...]

[...] 30, 2014 10/Nicholas Crafts: Europe badly needs to step up technology adoption and productivity growth. #stag pic.twitter.com/KEejDuML1D — Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) December 30, 2014 [...]

[...] massive advances in real standards of living even with a formally low investment, GDP, and productivity growth. Beyond that, a world where 7 billion people decide they really do want and deserve an [...]

[...] Tonight I’m tickled pink to be able to talk about our new investment in BuzzFeed! My partner @cdixon discusses our new investment in BuzzFeed here. We think of [...]

[...] neutrality? — David Goldstick (@innov8ion) November 12, 2014 @innov8ion The level of new investment will vary widely and directly proportional to the specifics of the regulatory regime. [...]

[...] deeply with @peterthiel: Many sectors of Western business are now wired to prevent or inhibit new investment. In the developing world, often brutally high levels of corruption and expropriation are [...]

[...] ) June 18, 2014 @pmarca yet here's the smug/arro link: despite disruptive premise, tech industry can seem rather like modern-day old boys network. — Heather Galloway (@GallowayHeather) [...]

[...] A story of unbundling in the tech industry: 20 years of consumer Internet evolution. Once upon a time there was AOL, which was a [...]

[...] girls in junior/senior years of high school to gain computing skills and connect into the tech industry. Laura and I couldn’t be more excited to work with all three amazing groups to help them scale [...]

[...] -site dining, full bar, etc…— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) August 31, 2014 @tonycamilli @pmarca Yep. Though I’d still rather just go to the regular cinema.— (@nacran) August 31, 2014 @ [...]

[...] . These and many more described here. Source Tweets: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, 11 Responses: @pmarca Yep,same regulations that brought us $2.50/min long-dist phone rates, for decades, for no reason, [...]

[...] are finally poised to start spending, which is good news for the economy and stocks. @pmarca yep. I think this is a classic example of garbage in garbage out. Our measuring numbers are broken. [...]

[...] have little interest in hearing about other domains. This is exacerbated by the SF-centric consumer tech party scene–other domains in SV don’t have the same party culture, just nerds at work. New [...]

[...] all big world-changers were dismissed by critics as trivial at first. Observer bias: Only read consumer tech blogs, only go to consumer tech conferences, think SV only works on consumer tech. Battling [...]

[...] — Doug Helferich (@letsgoduke) June 18, 2014 @pmarca also interesting how some consumer tech comes from the top of market to disrupt: Apple, tablet and possibly Tesla — Eddie [...]

[...] (@pmarca) December 29, 2014 4/Hansen was also completely wrong on the rate of technological progress at that time. #stag pic.twitter.com/vVxV7RsyHx — Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) December [...]

[...] one that is fantastic for consumers who benefit from all of the resulting innovation and technological progress? Wouldn’t Piketty’s prescriptions suppress that hypothetical scope and rate [...]

[...] , it’s hard to see interest rates rising dramatically anytime soon. While I am a bull on technological progress, it also seems that much of that progress is price deflationary in nature, so even [...]