Ingredient 2. The market is underserved Existing solutions need to be doing a subpar job of solving the problem. The founder of CRED, @kunalb11
, has a great framework for evaluating potential new solutions, called Delta-4:
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Delta-4 Framework: Evaluating Underserved Market Solutions
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Market Size Determines Startup Success More Than Idea Quality
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Ingredient 1. The problem is important to people There need to be a lot of people willing to spend a lot of money to solve the problem. Most startups fail not because the idea isn’t good but because the market (people+money) for the solution is just too small.
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Venture Scale: $100M to $1B Revenue Path Rule
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If you want to build a venture-scale business, a rule of thumb is that there needs to be a clear path to $100m in revenue per year, and eventually a path to $1B a year.
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Facebook’s Ad Revenue Decline Signals Major Shift in Digital Marketing
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'Facebook now contributes an immaterial amount of advertising revenue." BuzzFeed https://
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Anthropic Joins Forbes Cloud100 List, CEO Discusses AI Progress
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We are honored to be part of the annual
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Bernstein recommends buying Datadog after stock decline opportunity
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Bernstein suggests that this might be a good time to buy Datadog for those who felt like they missed an opportunity to get in https://
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Most Successful B2B Startups: Key Strategies
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(Keep reading for highlights, or jump straight to the full post for the whole story) ➔ https://
lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-the-most
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Databricks Named Number 2 Forbes Cloud100 List
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We’re thrilled to be named #2 on the 2023 @forbes #Cloud100 — a list of the world’s best private cloud companies! One key trend? “This year, AI is everywhere.” https://
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How Indie AI Products Launch and Acquire Customers
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just curios on how indie ai products launched and got customers 🙂
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How AI Indie Product Founders Come Up With Ideas
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Running an AI indie product that's making $$$? Q: How did you come up with your idea?