Startup Advice
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Startup Advice
Simply put, an ICP must be a single market segment :a group of people for whom the value of solving a problem is roughly the same, and who can be reached in roughly the same way. “People who use Excel” is not a market segment, because it says nothing about either the value of their problem or how to reach them. “Marketers who use Excel to build... See more
Jake Fuentes • Lessons learned from a startup that didn’t make it
Designing products for a single person
In business, there are countless examples of products invented for a single person that then became mass-marketable. Here are a few of my favorites:
In business, there are countless examples of products invented for a single person that then became mass-marketable. Here are a few of my favorites:
- Baking soda —invented in the 1800s by British chemist Alfred Bird so that he could make bread for his wife, who was allergic to yeast.
- The typewriter —one of the
Casey Rosengren • The Power of Designing for a Single User
The most successful web3 social apps are going to look completely different than web2 social (rather than building "decentralized Twitter/FB/X")
They'll lean into financial speculation & create new economic status games.
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Building the initial team for seed stage startups at andrewchen
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There’s wisdom to not talking about our goals. See Derek Sivers TED Talk. It could make you feel closer to your achievement than you are. But a spoken goal, the big one you feel in your bones, the one you’re afraid to say out loud because to not achieve it would be crushing. That takes courage. We reward courage by rooting for you. Some people call... See more
Kyle Thiermann • How can people root for you?
I’m not one to build in public, but there’s utility in making sure it’s known how people can root for you.