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Another thing about startups I've realized is you want to start with something small, but you could also see being expanded further. For example, snapchat star
by mahyarm 11y ago
Another thing about startups I've realized is you want to start with something small, but you could also see being expanded further.
For example, snapchat started with LA teenagers. Facebook started with harvard, then ivy league colleges, etc. Uber was licenced black car services in SF only at first, etc.
- tedmiston 11y agoAlways. And it's funny - the startups that try to start with "we're revolutionizing the world" end up over-promising. The ones like you mentioned actually do. Not only just in starting in one market, but focusing on one customer segment, or one feature, or one vertical.
- andyidsinga 11y agopg discusses some of these things in his essay "do things that don't scale" http://paulgraham.com/ds.html http://paulgraham.com/ds.html This is really hard advice to take ..and in my limited experience also hard to convince investors of. But I think he's right ...and it amounts to getting in the game / get out of the building etc.