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“A startup, if it’s lucky, creates magic, turns that magic into dollars, and transitions to life as a successful Big Muggle Company, capable of enormous profits and power but no longer able to conjure magic.”
Anthony Hobday • Blog
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goal: build magic-scale organizations
Product
- Fewer jobs-to-be-done. Focus on just 1-2 jobs-to-be done that are shared by many clients. The more jobs, the harder to productize. You can always expand.
- Scalable access. Find and tap into high-quality talent channels. Mechanical Orchard did this with the Pivotal Labs network (CEO Rob Mee used to run that company). Where’s your leg up?
- Piggyb
The Death of the Big 4: AI-Enabled Services Are Opening a Whole New Market
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The end of incrementalism: how AI will reward maximalist start-ups
Philip Clarkphilipjclark.substack.com
We are going to make this work.
- It has to start with brutal honesty
- We have a job to do. That job is to make Fab successful.
- I want your help doing that.
- But it won’t be exactly the same as it has been.
- And you might not always be comfortable with everything we have to do. Change is hard.
- We will do a ruthless assessment of our talent and fill in our gap
Jason Goldberg • A CEO wrote this brutal memo when he realized his billion-dollar startup was failing
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Because big businesses aren’t built on gimmicks. You can blitz your way through Sand Hill Road and spike up the App Store charts on gimmicks, but you can’t actually use them to replace Gmail, or Salesforce, or Instagram, or Instagram, or Instagram, or Instagram. Even seemingly instant successes can’t become lasting companies without putting in the ... See more
Benn Stancil • Why Are We Surprised That Startups Are So Freaking Hard?
The primary opportunity for startups is not to replace incumbent software companies—it’s to go after automatable pools of work.
Pat Grady • Generative AI’s Act O1
Service firms are hired for two reasons:
That execution-oriented first bucket tends to include IT implementations (like cloud migration projects), financial audits, and outsourced customer support – ... See more
- Do a job that the client doesn’t have the bandwidth or expertise to do.
- Offer third-party expertise in decisions (cynically, to cover the client’s a**.)
That execution-oriented first bucket tends to include IT implementations (like cloud migration projects), financial audits, and outsourced customer support – ... See more
The Death of the Big 4: AI-Enabled Services Are Opening a Whole New Market
Enter Large Language Models (LLMs). The first tranche of products and startups leveraging LLMs has kept within the mental model of selling software to achieve step-function improvements in end-user productivity. The "Copilot for [x]" trend reflects this mental model. While there are fantastic startups innovating to improve employee productivity, LL... See more
Sarah Tavel • AI startups: Sell work, not software
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