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Steal From The Best

James Currier

Founding partner of NFX

Ideas

NFX founding partner James Currier on how one word made his product viral

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NFX founding partner James Currier explains how changing language drove explosive growth

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NFX founding partner James Currier on how AI will change knowledge work

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NFX founding partner James Currier on manufacturing excellent initial transactions

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NFX founding partner James Currier explains how Hired closes the loop on disintermediation

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NFX founding partner James Currier explains why people’s interest in themselves is endless

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NFX founding partner James Currier explains how constraints create speed

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NFX founding partner James Currier explains how to solve the chicken-and-egg problem

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NFX founding partner James Currier explains how networks reach a tipping point

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NFX founding partner James Currier explains how to get your team over fear

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NFX founding partner James Currier explains how to start a market network without promising leads

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NFX founding partner James Currier explains how language drives growth

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How can you tell whether your marketplace is supply-side or demand-side?

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NFX founding partner James Currier: “Find transactions that aren’t happening and make them happen”

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NFX founding partner James Currier on what the five layers of the generative AI stack are

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NFX founding partner James Currier on how to find and use marketplace asymmetries

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NFX founding partner James Currier explains how to raise money in two days

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NFX founding partner James Currier: “You have to disguise it as a software business”

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NFX founding partner James Currier explains how to scale support while keeping users in email

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NFX founding partner James Currier explains the network math behind dinner party conversations

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NFX founding partner James Currier explains how to solve one side's complete need

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NFX founding partner James Currier explains how to turn your business into a network

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NFX founding partner James Currier explains why timing matters for startups

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NFX founding partner James Currier explains why B2B marketplaces are harder to corral than B2C

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NFX founding partner James Currier: “Who in your marketplace is the hungry person?”

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NFX founding partner James Currier on why first user experience is key to activation

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NFX founding partner James Currier on how businesses will use generative AI

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NFX founding partner James Currier on why marketplace take rates are low

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NFX founding partner James Currier explains why you need data systems to have a product

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NFX founding partner James Currier on why your first job should prioritize network

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NFX founding partner James Currier on why the best way to change yourself is to change your networks

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Intro

▶️What Are Network Effects? (Startup Mini-Series)07:06 · 7 Jan 2020

🎓NFX Masterclass: The Network Effects Masterclass

🎧How Network Effects Rule the World (with James Currier)6 Oct 2021

Deep

📕The Network Effects Bible (Updated 2024)38 min read · 25 Jul 2019

✍️The Network Effects Manual: 16 Different Network Effects (and Counting)44 min read · 25 Jun 2021

✍️The 4 Types Of Defensibility14 min read · 6 Apr 2021

✍️70 Percent of Value in Tech is Driven by Network Effects7 min read · 25 Jul 2019

📄Defensibility Creates the Most Value for Founders5 min read · 15 Sep 2016

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