Fantastic startup advice from Marc Andreessen 15 years ago. https://t.co/slnUkIGB5j
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Fantastic startup advice from Marc Andreessen 15 years ago. https://t.co/slnUkIGB5j
I should mention one sort of initial tactic that usually doesn't work: the Big Launch. I occasionally meet founders who seem to believe startups are projectiles rather than powered aircraft, and that they'll make it big if and only if they're launched with sufficient initial velocity. They want to launch simultaneously in 8 different publications, ... See more
Do Things that Don't Scale
In a great market—a market with lots of real potential customers—the market pulls product out of the startup.
Marc Andreessen • The only thing that matters
Product-market fit works in both directions. The perspective of the builder is always toward what they can do to change their product, what features and functionality to add. But with a long enough lens on successful and failed technology launches, you see that things like market context really matters. If it didn’t, we wouldn’t see as many ideas t... See more
Colossus • A Q&A with Eugene Wei: The Timeline is Evolving
I've never taken the perspective of "build a cool piece of technology and see where it goes." It's more or less been based on an intuition about a hole in the market—or, more accurately, a future hole in the market. At any given time, you've got to have a technology roadmap in your mind and a market roadmap as to where things are headed—b
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Marc Andreessen’s seminal blog post “The Only Thing That Matters.” In his essay, Andreessen argues that the most important factor in successful start-ups is the combination of market and product.
Chris Yeh • Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
The primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product that’s at least ten times better at doing something than the current prevailing way of doing that thing. Two or three times better will not be good enough to get people to switch to the new thing fast enough or in large enough volume to matter. The second thing that any techno
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