The SaaS Playbook: Build a Multimillion-Dollar Startup Without Venture Capital
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A cheat sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Patrick Vlaskovits • 1 highlight
amazon.com
First, does the product have a network? Does it connect people with each other, whether for commerce, collaboration, communication, or something else at the core of the experience? And second, does the ability to attract new users, or to become stickier, or to monetize, become even stronger as its network grows larger?
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
A lot of networks that have achieved super scale had some sort of status incentives or status games built in, very early on. It helped them to get that kinetic energy that you need in order to achieve scale that then increases your utility. Those networks were paying you to develop the network — paying with ego, with status, with a sort of an emoti... See more
Eugene Wei • Status Games: Engineering Scarcity in a World of Abundance
The product should deliver greater value when users share their content with their friends. The product builds out the network at the backend as more content is shared. Hence, the social network gets created, effectively solving the chicken and egg problem.