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Consider the cascade of specialized productivity apps (not suites) over the years, like Evernote, Wunderlist, Any.do, Todoist, Trello, Clubhouse, Basecamp, and the list goes on. Many of these are stable businesses, but they all claim a small piece of a large pie (and one could argue, were not great VC investments from a multiples perspective). The ... See more
Scott Belsky • Scott Belsky - On Tech/Product, Creativity, & Making Ideas Happen - Issue #9
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the question of what kind of company you want to build is as urgent and personal as it ever was. People will always struggle with it. The old models of “venture-backed” and “bootstrapped” both feel inadequate to me.
every.to • What Kind of Company Do You Want to Build?
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Livingston: Why did del.icio.us succeed? Schachter: First of all, because it was not a venture to start. I was building a product and that's it. Livingston: Did the others fail because they had too much money? Schachter: I think in general being overcapitalized is a path to failure. The VCs want you to spend. There are general ills with being overf
... See moreJessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
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Etsy, ProductHunt and Pinterest (the latter two both A16z portfolio companies) are building solutions from different directions, and a great many people trying to replicate some form of the boutique model online as well, as I suggested here - to create some kind of specialist curation.
Benedict Evans • The Facebook of ecommerce — Benedict Evans
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All curation grows until it requires search, and all search grows until it requires curation.
ben-evans.com • Lists Are the New Search — Benedict Evans
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Long lists don’t get done