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> You will see power laws apply just like it does in many situations, and there will be a handful of people who can pull six or seven figures in something like

> You will see power laws apply just like it does in many situations, and there will be a handful of people who can pull six or seven figures in something like writing a paid email newsletter. Sure, but to create a venture scale business you only need a few hundred highly successful ones; you need around 250 power users to create a $100M business.

LunaSea 7y ago
That's 200K / power user if you estimate that they represent half your revenue. That sort of amount is not a "power user" but multinational companies that have to be convinced over long periods of time and huge overhead. So that figure is way, way underestimated.
- Alex3917 7y ago
  They'd represent more like 90% of the revenue, but you're forgetting about the multiple. So call it 36K.
  - coldtea 7y ago
    Still hella hard. And the multiple is only interesting if you intend to go public, sell the company, or something.
coldtea 7y ago
>Sure, but to create a venture scale business you only need a few hundred highly successful ones; you need around 250 power users to create a $100M business. And creating "250 power users" at that scale is crazy hard.