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How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users
Vernal said this focus on nurturing community was key to getting a foothold in the product world. “It would be futile and foolhardy to try to compete with Microsoft and Google in a top-down way, to build a similar product and sell against them,” says Vernal. “Instead, they found a small group of really die-hard fans that carried the product with th... See more
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Brian Chesky explains how Airbnb solved the chicken-and-egg problem
“Marketplaces are incredibly defensible at scale, and maybe it’s because they’re incredibly hard to start. And the problem is simple - they call it the chicken and egg problem.”
As Brian explains, it was tough to bootstrap A... See more
Startup Archivex.comEmbedded within Slack’s strategy, and the strategy of many early-stage networked products, is a series of short-term boosts—often called “growth hacks”—which are important in forming the initial atomic networks. In Slack’s case, it was their incredible buzz within the early-adopter startup community, and their invite-only launch. There are other fa
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