1) Answering the "market size" question is standard. When raising funds, VCs ask founders for data about an existing market they're addressing. If there is no market, there is no one willing to buy. It's true. But, it's wrong.
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2) Defining innovation by current norms is extremely limiting. It's how we ended up in a game where the majority of players are either: - Copying existing players (EU copycats of US companies are abundant) - Challenging corporates by offering a better UX/service.
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3) Of course, there are opportunities. There is money to be made out of this type of startups. It's as if we had a pool. And we were constantly changing the water inside the pool. It makes the pool more pleasant. Yet, it's still the same pool. With the same walls.
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4) Building startups based on market sizes destroys any hope for definite optimism. Saying that new emerging energies & dreams must be limited by what already exists is so sad, so hopeless, so loose.
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5) Consider this temporality of innovation: Internet > Web > Smartphones > Apps > Airbnb > Service for Airbnb users How far is it in the innovation chain? Aren't there things to rethink before that, that offer more prospects?
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6) I'm not saying this is easy. I'm not saying it's for every single entrepreneur. It's fine to build businesses based on some observed opportunity with a decent market. Nevertheless, I believe startups exist to challenge the status quo. To dream. Not to be too lenient.
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@Google &@Facebook had no apparent market size.@_agricool has the same characteristics. It's not an easy company to build, but it's bold & global. What matters is the potential market you can reach. Dream big. Build things people will love. And have fun doing it
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Because business (startups) is about making money

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Yes precisely, that's why, *in the long-term*, stimulating new high-potential markets makes more sense IMO than going after an opportunity in established ones.
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Čini se da učitavanje traje već neko vrijeme.
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