By banding together, creators have the chance to change this, forming effective, high-signal syndicates. In doing so, they solve a critical issue for startups: distribution. By aggregating audiences, they can serve new companies to a large pool of consumers and businesses.
Ambient and in workflow I can conjure up my personal search bot via browser extension to generate information without leaving my workflow or opening a new browser, or like Alexa, has ambient presence and lives intelligently as a layer on top of daily activities.
"But there is an influential tide of founders on the rise that is opting out of this path and quietly plotting a new one that leads to building generational companies. It’s a hybrid path, combining the growth of targeted venture funding with the durability found in bootstrapping (i.e. profitability). It’s a path with less venture capital and more self-reliance."
People ask me about processes all the time. Planning processes, performance review processes, OKRs, et cetera. I think it’s because I was once a COO and people have this vision of COOs as process fiends. People who make the trains run on time. People with lots of Gantt charts all around them. I have nothing against process.1 But I think start... See more