Dan N. on LinkedIn: As a developer-turned-media company founder with over 5 million… | 11 comments
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Dan N. on LinkedIn: As a developer-turned-media company founder with over 5 million… | 11 comments
LinkedIn may have been a big reason for this: when GLG was getting started, coming up with a list of people who'd worked in, say, oil refining, or aircraft maintenance, or in billboard ad sales was not easy, and being able to offer people from any of those industries on demand was a competitive moat. Now, $80/month for LinkedIn Premium is enough to... See more
Byrne Hobart • The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack
Getting specific about your ideal customers allows you to filter out all the noise which comes from everyone else. In our case, we eventually noticed unusually strong signals from creative agencies who wanted to be edgy. We ignored everyone who wasn’t them, cut a bunch of features and were finally able to get a sense of what was working and what wa
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Well, first you start with the community. You find an underserved niche that you feel you understand them and speak to them in a way that resonates.
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Vicente jokes that they have an internal “wrapper-death countdown” which keeps track of the number of days the company survived since the last time it was “pronounced dead.” Here are his thoughts on how startups can be successful in a market where the capabilities of frontier models continues to expand: • Do one thing really well. Vicente takes the
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A successful new product should be able to answer detailed questions: Who is the hard side of your network, and how will they use the product? What is the unique value proposition to the hard side?