Before SaaS, the marketplace model was the golden child of tech. Facilitate transactions between people and charge a commission on each

If you’re a UK resident, it should be easy for you to take trips to hotspots like SF and NY to network in the flesh. That’s probably the best way to go about this.

People tend to copy the market leaders. When Google was the trendy startup, people copied it, same for Facebook, and in the last decade Stripe and Uber were trendy so people copied them

People tend to copy the market leaders. When Google was the trendy startup, people copied it, same for Facebook, and in the last decade Stripe and Uber were trendy so people copied them

The established company is in a dying industry (blogging). There are forces beyond my control that are squeezing us out

Social discovery is an idea from 2008 before social media went mainstream. Newsfeeds solved that problem pretty well eventually. How are you going to do meaningful social discovery in the age of the newsfeed

I saw a video where Sam Altman, former president of YC, said that he thinks of deleting his blog because the advice he gave there was so bad in hindsight

It’s all negotiation. Chances are the VC has determined that your metrics aren’t good enough to give you any bargaining power, but they’re good enough for him to take a flyer on you. Also now with the supply of money drying up, the investors have less competition and more leverage

I agree with you. If you are skilled enough to build something polished in 3 months, then the usual advice doesn’t apply to you. The advice of building out landing pages is for founders who need a lot of help building and would spend quite a bit of time and money getting to MVP