Even absent external feedback, it's possible to train yourself to spot the limits to your product. One approach I've taken when talking to companies who are trying to achieve initial or new product-market fit is to ask them why every person in the world doesn't use their product or service.
One of the first products we launched to help more companies get started was +After years of tireless iteration and improvement by the team, Atlas is now used for around one in ten new C Corporations in Delaware, a milestone that we’re quite proud of.
Align Your Success With Your Customer’s Success → What does success look like to your customers? Align your pricing strategy with success of your customer’s key metrics (e.g. financial transactions, messages, events.) The closer you align your business model to your customer’s success, the more successful your monetization strategy will be. For exa... See more
What happens when we redefine what a team is? Or, the idea of teams as we know them slips away? There are signs today of what the enterprise of the future might look like. On-demand companies like Instacart and DoorDash have fleets of 1099 contractors, not W-2 employees, delivering their service. Open source software companies maintain an ecosystem... See more
Advertising, in theory, is the business of buying and selling human attention. And though the ad business makes up only a small portion of the overall Attention Economy, it plays a massive role in shaping almost every other business.
In the passion economy: it’s much more about growing your audience or intensifying the relationship that you have with your audience and your customers. It’s about building a depth of fandom.
Risk: Bitcoin has been (and continues to be) quite volatile relative to US Dollars. There is risk that this volatility limits adoption or prevents investors from considering Bitcoin as a credible store of value. For better or worse, this volatility may be inherent to the process of Bitcoin adoption as natural swings in investor confidence (as faced... See more