Sublime

if you want to create and capture lasting value, don’t build an undifferentiated commodity business.

Marne Levine

(Freecardboardboxes.com)

Over the next two weeks, he met with Omidyar outside of Benchmark’s office and discovered that he was an anomalous kind of engineer, one who was consumed by the idea of community—every other sentence, he spoke about the eBay community, building the community, learning from the community, protecting the community. It was a passion similar to what, i

4. You can launch for just a small group of people, own that market, and then move from host to host until your product spreads like a virus (which is what Facebook did by starting in colleges—first at Harvard—before taking on the rest of the population).

among the Silicon Valley set by Peter Thiel, our wants tend to be borrowed from other people.

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They opt, deliberately, to attract only the early adopters who make or break new tech services and seek to do it as cheaply as possible.