Re:Excuse me, is there a problem?
by andrewstuart on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @05:59PM
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I'm not a PG fanboy but I do respect his thinking, and he really nailed it when he said "make something people want".
That statement is a much more generalized statement about what the basis of a business must be, whether or not it solves a problem, for a business to succeed it must provide something that people want.
In writing this comment I suppose it could even go further and say "make something people want or need". For example insurance and legal compliance are not things people tend to want, but do need.
Re:Excuse me, is there a problem?
by duckmysick on Thursday August 03, 2023 @02:35AM
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> make something people want or need
That makes sense. I agree, it's more universal and elegant than just solving a problem.
I also agree that trying to force "problem" into the discussion isn't useful, and in fact is counter-productive because you're verbally moving further away from what the business is really doing.
So perhaps the whole thing should be qualified as: In the case that a business is solving a problem, which _is_ typically the case in B2B (notice all your examples were B2C), _then_ this is a useful way of breaking down the typical questions you should be posing yourself.