Barely succeed! It's easier!
summary
Argues that tiny teams can beat giants by using modern building blocks like cloud hosting, open source stacks, Stripe/PayPal and app stores, with concrete examples: Pinboard sustaining 22,000 active users for over a year, DuckDuckGo surging on privacy, InstaPaper and NewsBlur built solo, Minecraft selling millions. Notes surprising facts like Google Reader run by two people, and that charging customers becomes a marketing advantage because paid users want the service to survive. Compares costs of labor versus commoditized infrastructure and shows small projects that actually work.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 14:46Standard Model of Startups
- 16:05Startup Financing Cycle
- 16:48Startup Life Cycle
- 29:22Pinboard
- 30:00Duck Duck Go
- 31:02Ravelry
- 31:49Backblaze
- 32:21Lavabit
- 33:10Growstuff
- 33:22Parent Meetings
- 33:54The Lifestyle Business
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