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- There’s a pressing need — and an opportunity — to build vertical-specific tools for workers striking out on their own. Much has been written about the proliferation of vertical software tools that help firms run their businesses, but the next generation of great companies will provide integrated, vertical software for individuals going solo.
from As More Workers Go Solo, the Software Stack Is the New Firm | Andreessen Horowitz by D'arcy Coolican
- Now that companies like Shopify have turned software into a commodity, what distinguishes you isn’t whether you can write code, but whether you have something to say and an audience to say it to.
from Can Shopify Compete With Amazon Without Becoming Amazon? (Published 2020) by Yiren Lu
- I think if we had wanted to build a search engine company 5 or 10 years ago, it would have been insanely hard and basically impossible to compete with Google because we would have needed hundreds of people and huge amounts of training data to build the ranking systems that we’re building. Now, with a very small – albeit extremely smart and capable,... See more
from A Decade of Deep Learning: How the AI Startup Experience Has Evolved by Richard Socher
- Fan Controlled Football (FCF) — mixing in-person football with digital coaching play calls
from Omnichannel Social: How the Pandemic Transformed Social Products by Mercedes Bent
The key to differentiation lies entirely in the most deeply human realms of social interaction: understanding an irrational client, forming the emotional bonds needed to persuade that client to act rationally, rendering the sensing, feeling judgments that clients insist on getting from a human being.
from Humans Are Underrated - Geoff Colvin by Geoff Colvin
- But it should be noted, this incentive system does lead to a signaling problem. To keep people motivated to believe, work hard and spread these decentralized environments, it’s very helpful that the prices of the shares (ie., tokens, etc) and that triumphant vibe within the culture — all plausible evidence of the potential size of the prize and our... See more
from Web3's Great Gambit: Incentives for the Almost Impossible by Jonathan Glick
- Membership programs thrive on “conversion events.”
from Running a Successful Membership / Subscription Program by Craig Mod
- Despite our resistance to it, I have never found myself feeling worse after the hard work was done. There have been days when it was damn hard to start, but it was always worth finishing. Sometimes, the simple act of showing up and having the courage to do the work, even in an average manner, is a victory worth celebrating.
from What I Do When I Feel Like Giving Up by James Clear
- Do they remain a Platform, or become an Aggregator?
from Shopify and The Key Decision for Business-in-a-Box Platforms by Nikhil Basu Trivedi