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This article makes me very curious about what the author considers an existential question. I don't disagree with the content of the article, but the title is t
by pavon 5y ago
This article makes me very curious about what the author considers an existential question. I don't disagree with the content of the article, but the title is throwing me. None of the examples he gave of unproductive things to say are questions at all, and I would consider one of his recommended questions (What is the competition missing that you think you got?) to be pretty close to an existential question for a startup.
- randrews 5y agoI took it to mean any question that, if you don't have a good answer, means your startup shouldn't exist. Like if the answer to "why would someone use you instead of Google" is null, then you are probably not going to successfully compete with Google. Or, you could come up with the best tool that ever existed for converting WEBP images to PCX, and if you don't have an answer for "who on earth has used the PCX format in the past thirty years" then you're probably not gonna sell many copies of that tool.