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"smashing success". You have to love this guy. He succeed in not wasting time on a project that his audience does not want. Kudos. On the other side, though, w
by rokhayakebe 15y ago
"smashing success". You have to love this guy. He succeed in not wasting time on a project that his audience does not want. Kudos.
On the other side, though, what would have happened if JD went around and asked about Twitter or Zuck did customer development before writing FB?
- asanwal 15y agoYou're right - the customer development model/ethos would have failed in identifying Twitter or FB. However, that's probably ok as Twitter and FB are outliers. I'm not sure setting out to build the next FB or Twitter is a a prudent "strategy" either - more of a prayer.
- ww520 15y agoOr ask people in the 90's do they need another search engine.
- enjo 15y agoI think you would have gotten a resounding yes on this one. "Would you be intersted in a seaarch engine that is much better at finding the content your actually looking for?" is a yes every time.
- nl 15y agoTwitter: "A free version of SMS, based on the web" - yeah, I think people would have wanted that. Facebook: When Zuck wrote Facebook, there had already been multiple letters-to-the-editor in the Harvard magazine asking to put the facebook (lowercase - the orignal paper based version) online. His FaceMash project had shown him the demand for social web applications was real.