New book by . Useful for anyone trying to bootstrap a new community or network, which is virtually every founder these days.
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Why every founder *these* days? The older model was more about commodities, less about communities. To my knowledge there isn't really a Bic ballpoint pen community. Or even a PayPal community, beyond the PayPal mafia. But there is a Bitcoin community. There are web3 communities.
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-“do things that don’t scale” to provide high value to the first cohort as a stopgap before network effects kick in
-build online first, where capex is minimized
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a must-read for marketplace business. already liked the few chapters in email. probably the only other thing to read is nfx.com
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Just to get whitelist in your coming gig
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