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

Business of Software Conference

Technology launched before the market was ready, a funded company run into the grown, struggling to reach the heights of an American counterpart. 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. That was their target market.

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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. It wasn’t until 2012, at the beginning of the explosion in mobile apps, that yet another generation of dating apps would emerge. Marketplace startups often provide these opportunities to this group.