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All Markets Are Not Created Equal: 10 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Digital Marketplaces - Above the Crowd
bgurleyabovethecrowd.comLaborious solutions will often have more prestige in the short term. They cost a lot of effort and they're hard to understand, both of which impress people, at least temporarily.
Whereas some of the very best work will seem like it took comparatively little effort, because it was in a sense already there. It didn't have to be built, just seen. It's... See more
Whereas some of the very best work will seem like it took comparatively little effort, because it was in a sense already there. It didn't have to be built, just seen. It's... See more
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
Fantastic advice, for software builders:
Headline driven development
Here is a simple process for shipping software projects that works. First, decompose the project into a stream1 of headlines. Then pick an aggressive date to ship the first headline and work like hell to meet that date. Have everyone work only on one headline at a time– the
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The most transformative companies rarely emerge from someone else's problem statement. They come from founders who see opportunities that others miss, often in areas that lack established categories.
Facebook didn't fulfill a request for "improved college social networking." It emerged from Mark Zuckerberg's specific intuition about how Harvard... See more
Facebook didn't fulfill a request for "improved college social networking." It emerged from Mark Zuckerberg's specific intuition about how Harvard... See more
Tina He • The Art of Understanding What's Going On
Great artists don’t study art history to figure out what art to create.
Great founders don’t analyze the market to figure out what product to build.
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