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I wonder what percentage of investors might actually draw the conclusion that while you may have a great product, you might be bad at marketing it? Because, wh
by jjeaff 3y ago
I wonder what percentage of investors might actually draw the conclusion that while you may have a great product, you might be bad at marketing it?
Because, while lots of engineers would like to think that the success of a product is due to the tech and features, the reality is that good market can make a crap product successful a lot more often than a good product can overcome bad marketing and presentation. Craigslist seems to be an exception rather than the rule.
- blululu 3y agoIt might have been great marketing for the same sort of counter signaling as the Mark Zuckerberg hoodie. “A man who can dress that poorly must be really good”. Craigslist is an outlier in many ways. The most significant is that they did not raise huge venture rounds so they have never been existentially committed to fulfilling an investor’s opinion of what a top 25 website should be.