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OP is not claiming those things are ineffective, they can be[1], he is rather trying to say they are not absolutely essential, you can succeed without them too

• Traster 5y ago
  I think there's a lot of things that I have ignored in my career and come back to and then said "Oh, yeah, that was a massive net negative, I should've just done it right in the first place". Those are really valuable insights. Where can you skip the "best" method, and where is it really going to screw you.
• doctor_eval 5y ago
  Yeah, given their level of success without marketing expenditure (ie, its likely to be a good product) you have to wonder if they would have been able to multiply that success with some marketing effort. On the other hand, putting (apparently) 100% of their effort into product is maybe the reason it worked. I personally think a great product is table stakes for success, but I’m repeatedly shown to be wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  • imron 5y ago
    > On the other hand, putting (apparently) 100% of their effort into product is maybe the reason it worked. That’s not what they did either: “We did not focus 100% of our work hours on only one business.”
    • doctor_eval 5y ago
      well, I’d like to know what percentage of the time they spent on this particular business, was spent on product.