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However, as time has progressed, the practicality for a consumer to use a product subscription started to wain and horror stories of consumers not being able to cancel or being billed continuously started to emerge. Very quickly, subscription models gained consumer reputation of being “locked-in” and not having any sort of the flexibility modern cu... See more
Harvey Hodd • Why subscriptions just don’t work for customers
The internet unlocks distribution. Traditionally, gatekeepers dictated who had influence: record labels, newspaper editors, studio executives. Now anyone can build an online community. You can share videos to YouTube, writing to Substack, music to Soundcloud
Rex Woodbury • The Creator Manifesto 🎨
There are many, many questions here. How do you fund this and incentivize contribution? Does this have a business model that can work? Who is the customer that wants this at scale? How is this different from many media startups today (like Axios or TheInformation)?
Sriram Krishnan • Whimsical ideas for 2020 - Part 2
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Conor has a big vision for collective intelligence but to get there Roam first has to focus on individual intelligence until they hit critical mass
Erik Torenberg • Village Global's Venture Stories on Apple Podcasts
as a network scales, it is inevitable that you need a way to sort & rank content.
web 2.0 solved it by ranking for popularity but a better approach could be to have a minimal quality threshold but not to try to rank things above that - so the search is not maximization-driven and leaves more room for serendipity.
h/t ken stanley
Marketing is a battle of perceptions, not products
