
Should This, Not Can This, Product be Built?


Fantastic startup advice from Marc Andreessen 15 years ago. https://t.co/slnUkIGB5j
This is partly why I find Lean Startup Evangelical Fundamentalism a little weird. Just in case you’re not familiar, “lean startup” is the meme-ified idea that entrepreneurs should build “Minimum Viable Products”, expending the least amount of resources to build the things that are most perfectly adapted to the ‘market fit.’
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the question of what kind of company you want to build is as urgent and personal as it ever was. People will always struggle with it. The old models of “venture-backed” and “bootstrapped” both feel inadequate to me.