How do you know when you should pack it up and go find another fishing spot?
@derrickreimer has a good post on that here:https://www.derrickreimer.com/essays/2019/05/17/im-walking-away-from-the-product-i-spent-a-year-building.html …
In a way, but small “bootstrapped” fishers have a big advantage over large commercial fishing vessels. Ruben is taking on DocuSign, and getting good traction (despite the fact that he’s tiny compared to them!)pic.twitter.com/heUmjBSgB4
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What do you think that advantage is?
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There are many. One, that
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That’s why I said convertkit was the better example too. Going after the same market, and doing it better. They built a better fishing net, and then fished in the same place.
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So many fishing analogies I love it!


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One other point... how many others have tried to take on the big co and failed. Survivor bias is strong in this industry.
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Far more likely to go into a market with no competition and discover there is actually no demand (and then fail). You’re almost always going up an incumbent. Sometimes the competitor is adjacent (Blockbuster / Netflix) and sometimes it’s direct (MailChimp / ConvertKit)
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Wydaje się, że ładowanie zajmuje dużo czasu.
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That means with the right bait and the right skill, you can catch fish too.
By the time ConvertKit showed up, MailChimp had already caught millions of fish. But that just meant it was a good fishing spot.