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How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users
While Hipstamatic built a great tool, it was Instagram that used network effects to win the market. The Instagram versus Hipstamatic story is perhaps the canonical example of a strategy made famous by Chris Dixon’s 2015 essay “Come for the tool, stay for the network.” Chris writes: A popular strategy for bootstrapping networks is what I like to cal
... See moreAndrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
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 Airbnb in the beginning because travelers couldn’t book h... See more
Startup Archivex.comAdvice: Do things that don’t scale—go direct to your potential supply and convince them to try your platform.
Lenny Rachitsky • Kickstarting supply in a labor marketplace
