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Kickstarting supply in a labor marketplace
Step 1: Constrain the marketplace
Lenny Rachitsky • How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace Business
The most common unscalable thing founders have to do at the start is to recruit users manually. Nearly all startups have to. You can't wait for users to come to you. You have to go out and get them.
Paul Graham • Do Things that Don't Scale
Come for the tool, stay for the network” is one of the most famous strategies for launching and scaling networks. Start with a great “tool”—a product experience that is useful even for one user as a utility. Then, over time, pivot the users into a series of use cases that tap into a “network”—the part where you collaborate, share, communicate, or o
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