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You can obsess about serving your customers/audience/clients, or you can obsess about beating the competition. Both work, but of the two, obsessing about your customers will take you further.
Kevin Kelly • 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
A dazzle of Slack bases, Discords, Telegrams, and Circles later, and it feels like we’ve arrived somewhere. Maybe it’s the post-social media era, where people move off the open platforms and into a curated mosaic of niche, private, and cooperative spaces. Or, maybe it’s just that the web we needed was here when we needed it.
Brian Dell • LF11 - Cohort Futures
Being both imaginative and determined is a powerful combination because it's so rare — so many imaginative people are dreamy and ineffective, and so many determined people are merely energetic robots.
Paul Grahamtwitter.comAnother way of seeing the fungibility spectrum, then, is as a measure of how difficult it is to transfer service from one platform to another. As Max Glassman put it in reviewing this argument, “it's all about switching costs… It would be difficult to find our favorite leaders' thoughts in 280 characters elsewhere.”
David Phelps • The promised land of the singing frog
Liberal use of "MVP" or "it's just an experiment". Does the team use those terms to skirt around typical quality standards and ship something subpar? Does everything worked on, even experiments, demand the same care as a more mainstream release that goes out to all users?
Paul Stamatiou • Craft
The uptake and growth of prediction markets has been dampened by regulatory issues, but possible workarounds include a non-fiat token, or reputation-linked points system.
roamresearch.com • Roam Research – A Note Taking Tool for Networked Thought.
So when you really think about how advertising products work on mobile, the Facebook feed, the Instagram feed, that's probably only taking up about 30 or 40% of your screen versus in Stories it's a full-screen ad, so theoretically it's going to be more effective. I think the pricing on those ads is still kind of figuring out what the equilibrium... See more
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • The Past, Present, and Future of Consumer Social Companies
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Make it easy and rewarding for people to contribute. Create opportunities for your existing customers to share the systems, processes and workflows they’re using successfully with others in the community. If possible, do that in a way where people can make money.