an Amazon query for books about competition yields 2(!) relevant results: these books, written 10 years ago, advise traditional enterprises on global expansion and positioning. what about tech companies? agenda in this essay i’ll distill…
Browsing Category Marketing
How to Acquire a Niche Ecommerce Store
update, Jan 2019: last month we sold this business after owning it for 1 year. last week my fund acquired Color My Slime, an ecommerce store that sells powdered pigments for coloring slime. there are 43…
The Creator’s Dilemma
with over 30 active side projects, it’s safe to say i’m a maker. i enjoy ideating –> developing –> launching –> iterating new products. sometimes they make money, sometimes they just make a point. whatever…
How MoviePass Will Control Hollywood
i joined MoviePass in 2013 and over the next few years watched 6-10 movies [in theaters] per month for just $35 bucks. MoviePass is like ClassPass for movies, except they didn’t fail and it’s a…
finding music market fit
in tech they teach us about product market fit. at least, losers like Eric Ries who don’t create anything themselves like to talk about it. the concept is you don’t have a real business until you…