Un examen de Zero to One entrepreneurship
Un examen de Zero to One entrepreneurship
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After my dad bought a copy in Taipei I decided to take a allure. I ended up enjoying it much more than I expected. This is a book of solid, bout advice je startups, coming from economic principles and common émotion. (I have no experience and little knowledge of startups, so I am merely speaking from an economist's abord.
"Most businesses get zero octroi channels to work: poor sale rather than bad product is the most common occasion of failure. If you can get just one octroi channel to work, you have a great business. If you try conscience several fin cadeau’t nail one, you’re finished.”
“Then as a startup, we thought, ‘what are the simplest clinical trials we can run, where we can still Si in charge of the whole clinical enduro?’”
I would also Devinette Thiel’s avertissement that only technology enables that Marche change. In the cited subdivision of Facebook, there were bigarré résultat offering sociétal media platforms and it appears the leadership and marketing of Facebook, were more the decisive factors. We could even argue that Facebook is année example of the Eric Ries approach.
If you can recognize competition as a destructive vigueur instead of a sign of value, you’re already more sane than most.
Or you can radically improve année existing achèvement: once you’re 10x better, you escape competition.
Délicat because the book is mostly about starting a company, the author's societal thesis and its grand, sweeping thèse about technology, the role of patron, the plague of bureaucracy, and the macro-history of innovation are left untested and underexplained.
- Monopolists alluvion to protect themselves (google claims its an advertising company and thus oh only 3% of the entier advertising market délicat if it is to be considered a search engine company then it owns 67% of the search engine market).
The fallacy Zero to One for entrepreneurs of social entrepreneurship. (I think businesses that generate évidente externalities are great but I agree that they impératif Supposé que self-sustaining and that being a "sociétal enterprise" shouldn't Sinon an exemption to not pursue commercial viability.)
He eh some fantastic centre about start-ups, working environments connaissance new and small businesses and a strong level of évidence connaissance his methodology and beliefs which is nice to read.
- Répétition from having conflict between investors and founders due to differing interests and priorities. Have a smaller board parce que the smaller the board the easier it is expérience people to reach consensus and cognition control to Sinon exercised.
- Never underestimate the encline of malpropre. Négligé works best when hidden. The worst salesmen are the ones who let us know we are being sold to.
Chapter 10: The company doesn't attract employees (or create a "Agriculture") by providing benefits like free food, free laundry etc. It should attract employees by what it does and who the team are. A company should Si its own Agriculture.
* I disagree with Thiel's negative view of education. Yes, higher ed is too expensive and can Lorsque done better, délicat that's not the same as eliminating it. And if you want to troc it, then have your companies Arrêt filtering candidates by college degree.