Exactly. Well said. And thanks for the kind words
Exactly. Well said. And thanks for the kind words
photographers. Founder Brian Chesky describes this strategy succinctly: “Do everything by hand until it’s too painful, then automate it.”
Chris Yeh • Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
As Paul Graham said in his essay “Do Things That Don’t Scale”: A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or don’t. You build something, make it available, and if you’ve made a better mousetrap, people beat a path to your door as promised. Or they don’t, in which case the market must not exist. Actually startups take off becau... See more
Gabriel Weinberg • Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
And this is exactly why I supported SuperRare’s efforts to blow up its traditional venture capital structure in favor of a more human approach.
Michael Lazerow • Venture Capital in a Decentralized World
Actually startups take off because the founders make them take off… The most common unscalable thing founders have to do at the start is to recruit users manually.
Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares • Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
As Paul Graham said in his essay “Do Things That Don’t Scale”: A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or don’t. You build something, make it available, and if you’ve made a better mousetrap, people beat a path to your door as promised. Or they don’t, in which case the market must not exist. Actually startups take off becau
... See moreGabriel Weinberg • Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
Brian Chesky explains how Airbnb solved the chicken-and-egg problem
“Marketplaces are incredibly defensible at scale, and maybe it’s because they’re incredibly hard to start. And the problem is simple - they call it the chicken and egg problem.”
As Brian explains, it was tough to bootstrap Airbnb in the beginning because travelers couldn’t book h... See more
The ambition to be global from day one was very rare before Uber. This ambition requires a blitz-scaling mentality
Erik Torenberg • Emil Michael (ex CBO at Uber)
That initial fragility was not a unique feature of Airbnb.