Business Building

sari and

Death is the default

Gena Gorlin genagorlin.substack.com

Sarah Drinkwater

Increasing Returns and the New World of Business

W. Brian Arthur hbr.org

aandrea

In more physical industries, there are generally diminishing marginal returns: the next acre you plant and next oil well you drill is probably not as productive as the last one—because if it were, you would have done it first! But the next user of a software platform is often more valuable than the previous one, because they increase the size of the network.

Not every startup lends itself to such an intense customer focus: some new ventures are supply-led, not demand-inspired. Consumers could have never asked for an iPod until they actually saw one first.

Cedric Chin • Product Validation Frameworks are Mostly Useless Without Taste

sari

I think we have so many examples of assholes starting businesses, and if they’re the majority of examples, we’re only going to have shitty businesses. I want to see people with very specific perspectives and opinions on how to manifest things into the world. More people should take business personally.

andrea