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Great products take off by targeting a specific life inflection point, when the urgency to solve a problem is most acute.
Facebook ➝ Starting at a school
Linkedin ➝ Getting your 1st job
Slack ➝ Starting a company
Nikita Biertwitter.comScott Belsky Talk at South Park Commons
Often designs from frustration
Right now, greater skill is being brought by compute and developing a democratization of many things (code, design, etc.). Because of this, taste will probably be the most important skill
Taste is derived from culture and overlap of industries
Because of that
When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of growing up to satisfy user needs in a way that meets business goals for transformative outcomes
Chappell Ellisonx.com10 Forecasts For The Near Future Of Tech 🔮 | by Scott Belsky | Positive Slope | Dec, 2021 | Medium
Scott Belskymedium.comAs long as the number of subscribers increases, so will the number of newsletter publishers. Users’ email inboxes – already full with non-newsletter-emails – will get as crowded as social media newsfeeds. Just wait until Gmail introduces an algorithmic feed for your newsletter inbox.
Brianne Kimmel • Not Found
With large teams and important business goals to lead, Heads of Community will earn a rightful place on the executive leadership team. Community leaders will no longer be embedded inside other functions — they will be valuable enough to stand alone and to build large, high functioning teams.
Lisa Xu • The Rise of the Community Department
No matter how many people come over for dinner, you’re only going to be able to engage with a few.
And no matter how big the crowd in the arena, the musicians can only see the faces of a few hundred.
An investor can only be engaged and smart about a very small number of companies.
And it doesn’t matter how many students are in the class, the teacher i
... See moreSeth Godin • The natural size
For many users, LinkedIn is primarily an online resume. There are a few segments of users, however, which are, in fact, starting to “live” on the site. The primary group is executive recruiters. Because of the breadth and quality of LinkedIn’s member base, recruiters are using it to identify, contact and check references on passive job seekers – i.... See more