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I prefer Hard Business to Hard Tech. Some businesses may be easy on the tech side, but very hard on the customer acquisition side because they require a complet
by rokhayakebe 10y ago
I prefer Hard Business to Hard Tech. Some businesses may be easy on the tech side, but very hard on the customer acquisition side because they require a complete change in the way people think and/or behave.
In that light these businesses were easy tech but hard Businesses that ended up being worth a lot: Ebay, Amazon, Uber, AirBNB, Dropbox, and more.
EDIT
10 of the top 15 Unicorns
Uber - Not Hard Tech
Xiaomi - Kind Of Hard Tech
Didi - Not Hard Tech
AirBNB - Not Hard Tech
Palantir - Hard Tech
Snapchat - Not Hard Tech
Wework - Not Hard Tech
FlipKart - Not Hard Tech
SpaceX - Hard Tech
Pinterest - Not Hard Tech
Dropbox - Not Hard Tech
- throwaway729 10y agoUber's core business isn't hard tech, but they're investing mountains of money in hard tech.
- tlb 10y agoOr to say it another way, providing v1 of the service wasn't hard tech, just a mobile app with routing and payments. Scaling up and driving the cost down is. This is a great way to build a company, because you have real data about which scaling problems are actually important, and a real operation to incrementally test solutions in.
- throwaway729 10y agoActually I was thinking self driving. But that too.
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- selimthegrim 10y agoGod help us if Palantir is hard tech
- har777 10y agoHow is Palantir hard tech ?