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The idea that a startup's successful product will be very different from their initial offering is a bit overblown. Yes, there are any number of high profile ex
by mercurio 19y ago
The idea that a startup's successful product will be very different from their initial offering is a bit overblown. Yes, there are any number of high profile examples where this has held true (blogger, paypal, flickr), but there are an equal number of successful companies that got big doing exactly what they set out to do (google, amazon).
Twitter and ning are more current examples who seem to have got it right from the start.
- zach 19y agoDid Ning get it right from the start? Their focus has shifted (rightly) from creating applications to creating groups using the same app. Ning still has those features, but few people got very far with their "own take on Craigslist" as their original pitch went. It turns out, of course, people want a great successor to Yahoo Groups or EZBoards a lot more.