January 2012
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On Social Experiments
“Have an idea for a startup? Don’t launch a company, launch an experiment.” - @vacanti
Vin, from Yipit, wrote a great post suggesting entrepreneurs launch an experiment to prove their assumptions, before spending the cash and time building a product, a la the lean startup movement.
He had an idea, spent one day coding it (instead of six months), to realize consumers maybe...
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Our Take: Building Products From Improvised User...
Sometimes, you just have to pay attention.
Chris Dixon wrote an interesting blog post, regarding products build from improvised user behavior. We highly recommend you read it for yourself, but to summarize, some of today’s most popular technology startups were born from current behavior already present in niche culture. A good example mentioned by Chris:
“For a long time, there...