Thiel: “Almost all of the successful companies in Silicon Valley had some model of starting with small markets and expanding.” Amazon started with books. PayPal started with eBay power-sellers. Facebook started with Harvard. Airbnb started with renting air mattresses.___LINEB... See more

You and your ragtag team of engineers likely won’t be able to create something that is competitive with any big incumbent product. However, you can build features, seed content, and brand it in a way that is so obnoxiously relevant for a particular group of people that their only possible reaction is “Well, fuck. You go... See more