how I’d build a startup
Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected
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Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
I think this also why the Apple culture of secret works so well. On your most important values there can be no second chances. If I let you do it this once, then you'll do it again
Peter enjoyed pointing out that while most things valuable are pretty hard to do, few truly difficult things are of much value at all (the many possible examples are obvious). Underwriting risk in millions of real-time financial transactions per day is a tricky, but very lucrative, business at scale -- PayPal is a valuable solution to real problems
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It's very hard to build new things. The default when you're starting something is nobody cares. And your job is to make them care. And it sucks because you care so much about this thing. You have this crystal clear vision. And your job is to overcome indifference. And that’s just a hard journey.... See more
But if you don't believe that it's possible, you've di
It's hard to build new things
The key point to understand about Bloomberg is that it’s both a software product and a social network. The software product determined who would join the network, but the network is what keeps users there. It’s like a multiplayer video game, or Harvard: Sure, the quests and campus are useful, but people keep showing up because of the friends they’v
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5. Start small and start local:
You don’t need to reach millions to make millions.
Start with 10 true customers. Then 20. Some great businesses can be built with 100 true fans.
Don’t try to build your product/service for everyone or it will end up not working for anyone. Customers want you to specialize.
You don’t need to reach millions to make millions.
Start with 10 true customers. Then 20. Some great businesses can be built with 100 true fans.
Don’t try to build your product/service for everyone or it will end up not working for anyone. Customers want you to specialize.
Nick Huber
‘They know they should do one thing but they feel they should do something else. And they can’t reconcile the two things. Generally you should go with what you feel that you should do. Because your emotional system is a great deal smarter than you give it credit for. You have to figure out how to make your emotional system make decision so you can
... See moreSimilar to the brain and mind idea that Isabel talks about in her article .
This isn’t to say that proof of work is bad. In fact, coming up with a constraint that unlocks the creativity of so many people is exactly how Status as a Service businesses achieve product-market fit. Constraints force the type of compression that often begets artistic elegance, and forcing creatives to grapple with a constraint can foster the typ
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