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Why Startups Fail
- jwilliams 17y agoSurely many startups will be swimming against 2-3 of these? Otherwise there is no risk and they are simply working in the mainstream? I'd certainly not advocate "make something people don't want", but sometimes isn't it going to be "make something people have no idea they want yet..."? For me this make it hard to apply this pyramid. For example, "scale" might mean many thousands of users (argh, I need hardware) vs a few extremely high paying users (argh, I need sales, training, etc).
- MikeMacMan 17y agoYou bring up a good point, although I think the pyramid applies to you as well. Whether you need to scale your app, or scale your organization (salespeople, trainers, etc), it's all 'scaling'. As for Product/Market fit, if you have a product that 'people have no idea they want yet', then the author would probably ask you to at least validate your preliminary idea in some way.