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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. So the iPhone was a 2G product. So that model was actually something that would work. It was just at the wrong time.

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

Andrew Chen

The Cold Start Problem , as the book is called, is about the secret that drives many of tech’s most successful products. It’s the story of how messaging apps, marketplaces, workplace collaboration tools, multiplayer games, all share a common thread of being products that connect people with each other. The question is, how?