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Unless you stop trying to be someone else, and start trying to the best "you" you can be, you're not a novel opportunity.
by aspir 16y ago
Unless you stop trying to be someone else, and start trying to the best "you" you can be, you're not a novel opportunity.
- pg 16y agoThis isn't about what startups are, merely how they describe what they are.
- aspir 16y agoWhat I meant with that last comment was that in a setting like Disrupt, you are exactly what your audience thinks you are during a pitch, and an "x of y" description can leave the incorrect first impression that you are "me too" opportunity, which Opzi and many other startups are not. In non-SV areas, that thinking is a paradigm that cannot be unshifted. I've seen a great deal of cool and creative ideas come out of places like OKC that get brushed aside with the "x of y" description. Arguably, it's one of the more intangible benefits of SV.