Re:How we launched our MVP in 3 weeks
by rhizome on Thursday June 25, 2020 @02:14PM
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> The best class of startups is where the key risk is not "is there a market?" but "can this be technologically pulled off right now?"
I worked for a group of assholes in 2011 or so who basically had Zoom'ish host-guest videochat working by 2012 and they wound up petering out. These were big-exit veterans making a kind of moonshot for the time, but for whatever reason ran out of gas (it certainly wasn't a money issue given the history of the founders).
The market can't be counted on to rise to the occasion.
I worked for a group of assholes in 2011 or so who basically had Zoom'ish host-guest videochat working by 2012 and they wound up petering out. These were big-exit veterans making a kind of moonshot for the time, but for whatever reason ran out of gas (it certainly wasn't a money issue given the history of the founders).
The market can't be counted on to rise to the occasion.