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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a world-defining realization
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People are quick to shout and cry if they don’t like something. Same thing applies but in a quieter way if they like it. Neutral or boring? That’s when we’re quiet
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That is one of the most fun aspects of building a startup. Releasing your features || products into the wild & watching first user interactions. Realizing all the mistakes that you made, smiling at some, laughing at others and wanting to hide forever due to a few!
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Which of course you never do, because the feeling of users interacting with your product is always way superior to the feeling of failure!
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Does not seem like a good example. MySpace had photo sharing before Facebook existed, so this "realization" was not novel.
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Similarly, this is what I learned by running my business in
#mentoring domain: Mentees are deeply interested in regular updates about "professional life journey" of mentors - who were mentoring
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