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tedmiston on Oct 25, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Generalised Problems Kill Startups

I mean that's how so many startups work though.

You start with a big grand vision, find fit in a specific niche / market / vertical to solve a specific problem for a specific customer, then generalize it back to more customers and more verticals.

davesuperman on Oct 25, 2016 [–]

Well, that's the story winners are incentivised to tell - they had some grand plan and every step was designed perfectly to lead to the next.

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