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Why Your ‘Brilliant’ Technology Fails To Have Impact | Tom Adeyoola, Metail | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

Some friends of mine went off and did the same thing a few years later and successfully floated their business in 2012 for 500 million. It was I think the biggest startup in corporate history at the time. I realized that ideas were all about customer problems and needs. So that model was actually something that would work.

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

My book aims to change that, systematically laying out concepts for startups and folks launching new products to consider. ” Here’s how I define each side: There are usually a minority of users that will create disproportionate value and as a result, they will have disproportionate power.