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Early adopters and Silicon Valley are the easy way to failure
- timcederman 18y agoSeemed to work for Yelp.
- Hexstream 18y agoThrowing a random example of a case where a strategy correlates with success isn't sufficient to dismiss the possible shortcomings of that strategy.
- timcederman 18y agoSure, I totally agree, hence revising what I was originally going to post. :) I don't think it's a random example. If you utilize the early adopters in the Bay Area to gain a foothold, so long as you can leverage that, it's still a good strategy to take.
- ashu 18y agohttp://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2008-07-31 http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2008-07-31 This is a great counter point. There are always pros and cons to every thing. Looking at a single side just appears trollish.
- Hexstream 18y agoI think it's okay to look at a single side if the other side has already been explored to death. Provided you bring up a legitimate point of course, which he did.
- brlewis 18y agoThat was just my first point, having little actual experience with early adopters. I posted a followup today with four more reasons why it pays to seek early adopters.