Post 20241121.1 - Most advice for startups really only benefit well funded startups who have traction, or startups that haven't yet launched, there's limited knowledge share about the gap in between
Two more reasons why content shies away from 'business' guidance.
First, 'business' events are situational and nuanced. I don't mean pricing and revenue. I mean the plumbing of customers, hiring, and conflict. The impact of the content depends on being actionable where the reader is in a 'similar situation'. For 'business' this is harder to overlap in time. Product development & go-to-market are staged and benefit from lessons for forward planning.
Second, many founders are technical or younger with less business experience. There is a savviness to writing this content and a savviness to appreciating it. I'll see content that feels like post-mortems authored to be obvious in context and clear in lessons, but how mappable is that for others...I suspect not very (but I can be wrong.)
interesting perspective. I'd value real life specific and actionable learnings over GPT'd generic any day, even if i can't directly apply it, i'd value the opportunity to 'case-learn'
Two more reasons why content shies away from 'business' guidance.
First, 'business' events are situational and nuanced. I don't mean pricing and revenue. I mean the plumbing of customers, hiring, and conflict. The impact of the content depends on being actionable where the reader is in a 'similar situation'. For 'business' this is harder to overlap in time. Product development & go-to-market are staged and benefit from lessons for forward planning.
Second, many founders are technical or younger with less business experience. There is a savviness to writing this content and a savviness to appreciating it. I'll see content that feels like post-mortems authored to be obvious in context and clear in lessons, but how mappable is that for others...I suspect not very (but I can be wrong.)
interesting perspective. I'd value real life specific and actionable learnings over GPT'd generic any day, even if i can't directly apply it, i'd value the opportunity to 'case-learn'