One of the most useful questions you can ask in a startup is: How is what users want different than you expected? Are people using your product in unexpected ways? Are different people using it than you expected?
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It's not a bad sign if there are lots of answers to these questions. It's a good sign. It means you're at least near some live demand, which is as much as you can hope for at first.
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E.g. Zuck once told me that they were surprised that early Facebook users kept changing their profile pics. That was how they realized users wanted to share images.
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There's a variant of Cunningham's Law for startups: the fastest way to learn what people want is to give them what they don't want.
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So would you say within those answers lies a startup's deeper focus that they should adopt?
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“live demand” is my new buzzword possibly band name
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