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
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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
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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
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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
... See moreJessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
A crowded market is actually a good sign, because it means both that there's demand and that none of the existing solutions are good enough. A startup can't hope to enter a market that's obviously big and yet in which they have no competitors. So any startup that succeeds is either going to be entering a market with existing competitors, but armed ... See more
Paul Graham • How to Get Startup Ideas
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Startups are about focusing and executing on a single, scalable idea rather than jumping on every good one which crosses your desk.
Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
Of course we have to believe that there is a viable market, a differentiated product offering and a chance to build something defensible but if you do those basics right you still get crushed without an amazingly talented founder.
Mark Suster • What Can You Learn From Ring’s Astounding Success? – Both Sides of the Table
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