@paulg any example on top of your mind that you can share?
It's common for a startup to be confused initially with some category of lame predecessors. It seems to be harmless and may even be beneficial. It doesn't deter users, who see you're different, but keeps you off everyone else's radar screen.
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I was thinking about how some people confuse Lambda School with coding bootcamps. Then I remembered how people similarly confused YC with startup incubators, and Dropbox with the many broken online backup things available then, and so on.
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How to avoid seeing things from lens of past?
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Build the future.
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Can’t think of a better situation than this for startups. 1. Proven market, so you don’t have to educate new users, and 2. Competition is weak, potentially complacent, and therefore beatable.
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The most familiar products spread the farthest. Have you seen DreamList? (https://www.dreamlist.com )
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This happens all the time with dating, our predecessors are all pretty lame
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Isnt this an example of incremental innovation ? .... if you don’t have a lame predecessor, aren’t you the lame predecessor ? I’m assuming we believe in growth & innovation
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It seems it would almost be better to have lame predecessors to pave the way than to carve out something new and convince people to use it.
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