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But with SaaS + fintech, a vertical SaaS company can capture a customer’s traditional software spend as well as the spend on employee and financial services.
Seema Amble • Fintech Scales Vertical SaaS | Andreessen Horowitz
Aggregators make it dramatically simpler and cheaper for suppliers to reach customers (which is why suppliers work so hard to be on their platform). This increases the types of new businesses that can be created by virtue of the aggregators existing (YouTube creators, Amazon merchants, small publications, etc.); regulators should take care to prese... See more
stratechery.com • Defining Aggregators – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Differentiation is survival; maintaining and increasing differentiation requires an enormous amount of continuous energy because the universe wants you to be typical
Jeff Bezos • Jeff Bezos Shareholder Letters | Founders Podcast with David Senra #282 • Podcast Notes
I ain’t reading all that for the same reason I don’t read Lorem ipsum placeholder text: It’s not real.
Kate Lindsay • I don’t care what the AI wrote
Building a beverage brand used to be a function of buying advertising, courting the right distributors and merchants, designing attention-grabbing packaging, and paying the right bribes to get good placement at retail.
Dan Frommer • The art of selling a feeling
@tszzl: move fast break things era is over. it’s time to think deeply and make generationally good decisions
The internet has reduced the opportunity costs involved in launching retail concepts, of every size. Overlay that with prevailing attitudes of many Millennials to make a job, rather than take a job, and you have the makings of many new startups. Add some crowdfunding and the power of influencer marketing to take a product from obscurity to ubiquity... See more
Sanford Stein • Retailing 2020 – 2030: taking a long view
Innovation is about designing customers, not just new products, new services, and new user experiences.