Go Slow to Go Fast: Software Building and Investing
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Go Slow to Go Fast: Software Building and Investing
Livingston: Did you have competitors that you worried about? Winblad: We didn't ever worry about competitors. There were, over time, other companies that started with various different offerings in what was called "accounting software" then. But again, nobody had any market share—100 percent is available for everyone, so we wouldn't get i
... See moreJessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
One of the most common mistakes entrepreneurs make is they come up with a technological breakthrough but they do not spend any time analyzing the industry structure or if go-to-market is even possible
Tim Ferriss • Legendary Investor Bill Gurley on Investing Rules, Finding Outliers, Insights from Jeff Bezos and Howard Marks, Must-Read Books, Creating True Competitive Advantages, Open-Source Strategies, Adapting Mental Models to New Realities, and More (#651) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
Building & Investing in Marketplaces
joincolossus.comI do think that bringing the marketplace functionality too early can be a burden on the company, especially one that's not capitalized well... offer something with high intrinsic value and low marginal cost, start getting customers hooked into that workflow, and then expand into other parts of the workflow that leave you well-positioned to launch a... See more