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- Build a clear value proposition (not just a ‘me-too’ products with lots of influencers thrown at it)

As we’ve engaged in small group video chats and commented on each other’s drafts and started interest groups on Circle, a Facebook-like tool designed for this very purpose, it’s become increasingly clear that the value of this course has more to do with the community than the classes. And that’s not because David is a bad teacher, it’s because he’s... See more

Pipe is in the business of creating Business-Funding Fit. Its skills -- pulling in companies’ financial data via APIs, assigning ratings based on that data, attracting investors, providing liquidity, and managing seamless ongoing financial transactions -- will be extensible to many more subscription-based business models over time.

the science of business is scaling, and the art of business is things that don’t scale

what sounds very simple actually requires a very serious breaking away of an ideology – spread loudly by Silicon Valley over the last few decades – that claims that technology is the solution to it all, that we can engineer our way out of the world’s problems, and that the world, society, and humans are nothing more than just another machine that n... See more

meanwhile, email often frustrates me because there is TOO much time to polish, it feels like I can't just say what's on my mind and work things out, whatever I send feels "final" in some sense I really dislike

Can I imagine living without this technology? Why, or why not?

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