Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
I propose The Liminal Web began to crystallise in the wake of a number of podcasts and youtube channels which emerged between 2015 and 2020. Each of these platforms explored a very similar array of topics and platformed a similar collection of guests and in doing so created a distinct network of thinkers and ideas.
Joe Lightfoot • The Liminal Web: Mapping An Emergent Subculture Of Sensemakers, Meta-Theorists & Systems Poets
Alex Danco: Funding the Future - David Perell
perell.comProactively seek stories from exceptional members, then share them widely to inspire others to join the fun.
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
through viral growth are healthier and more engaged than those that are launched in the typical “Big Bang” fashion, as Google+ did years back.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Enter our approach to YouTube.
Which I’ll walk through step by step: https://t.co/XbhxDqdi3b
The Hotmail story, along with many other examples, is recounted in Adam L. Penenberg’s Viral Loop. For more on Hotmail, also see http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/27/neteffects.html [inactive]
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Flickr became a modest success and was acquired by Yahoo for $35 million in 2005, making Butterfield a Super Founder who, like many other Super Founders, went on to start a multibillion-dollar company next.