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Comparatively speaking, it's easy to find a genuine need in a marketplace. It's much harder to build the right solution to that need. A certain class of startup
by jonnathanson 13y ago
Comparatively speaking, it's easy to find a genuine need in a marketplace. It's much harder to build the right solution to that need. A certain class of startups fails because they builds hammers, and then goes looking for nails. But others fail because they find a nail, then build a screwdriver.
- danthewireman 13y agoBuilding a popular solution seems to be even harder than building a right one, and that seems to be the real goal, in terms of financial success.
- jonnathanson 13y agoWith respect, I think we're saying the same thing here and just getting a little caught up on the semantics. It's hard to become a "popular solution" without being a "right solution" for a significant number of people. Right x scale = popular. While it's possible to become popular without being right, that's not sustainable. So, for all intents and purposes, I'm equating "right" with "popular" in this case. Of course, there's a whole lot that goes into making a "right" idea a popular idea, and that's nontrivial. Did not mean to gloss over that. But my broader point was about how coming up with a right-fitting solution is much harder than identifying a need in the first place.