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Book Reviews

THE COLD START PROBLEM: A SUMMARY

Network based products like eBay, Slack, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, and Airbnb face a challenge when launching. They aren’t valuable to users unless they already have a lot of other users on the platform. So, if you are trying to create a product like this, how do you get people to use your product when there are not already a meaningful number of other users?

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Book Reviews

JOBS TO BE DONE: A SUMMARY

“Nearly everyone in a major corporation has participated in a brainstorming session in which, without knowing the customer’s needs, they were encouraged to generate hundreds of ideas and were told that there is no such thing as a bad idea. You can probably still picture walls of Post-It notes.”
– by Anthony W. Ulwick

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Book Reviews

BLUE OCEAN SHIFT: A SUMMARY

“Blue ocean strategy pursues differentiation and low cost simultaneously by reconstructing market boundaries…A thriving blue ocean strategy is built on more than differentiation and low-cost in its value proposition. It must align value, profit, and people propositions so that each reinforces the others.”

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Startup Education

5 STEPS TO PRODUCT MARKET FIT: A SUMMARY

The descriptions of Product Market Fit all seemed so post hoc, so unactionable…The Product Market Fit definitions I had found were vivid and compelling, but they were lagging indicators — by the time investment bankers are staking out your house, you already have Product Market Fit.

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Book Reviews

SPRINT: A SUMMARY

“My best work happened when I had a big challenge and not quite enough time.”
― Jake Knapp, creator of the Google Ventures sprint process

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Book Reviews

THE E-MYTH REVISITED: A SUMMARY

The legendary book “E-Myth” explores “why most small businesses don’t work and what to do about it.” This summary should be enough to convince you the book is worth the purchase price!
– by Michael E. Gerber, The World’s No. 1 Small Business Guru.

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Startup Education

What Startup Should I Start?

“What you need to know to succeed in a startup is not expertise in startups, what you need is expertise in your own users. Mark Zuckerberg did not succeed at Facebook because he was an expert in startups, he succeeded despite being a complete noob at startups…”
– Paul Graham

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