Comments on: Building Products for Mass Adoption http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/01/25/building-products-for-mass-adoption/ Entrepreneur turned VC Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Bain http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/01/25/building-products-for-mass-adoption/comment-page-2/#comment-3626 David Bain Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:20:02 +0000 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/?p=1818#comment-3626 Excellent points, I'm going to book mark this blog entry. BTW... what's wrong with financial modeling PLUS! fail fast? Excellent points, I'm going to book mark this blog entry. BTW… what's wrong with financial modeling PLUS! fail fast?

]]> By: David Bain http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/01/25/building-products-for-mass-adoption/comment-page-2/#comment-12149 David Bain Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:20:02 +0000 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/?p=1818#comment-12149 Excellent points, I'm going to book mark this blog entry. BTW... what's wrong with financial modeling PLUS! fail fast? Excellent points, I'm going to book mark this blog entry. BTW… what's wrong with financial modeling PLUS! fail fast?

]]> By: David Bain http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/01/25/building-products-for-mass-adoption/comment-page-2/#comment-3625 David Bain Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:20:02 +0000 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/?p=1818#comment-3625 Excellent points, I'm going to book mark this blog entry. BTW... what's wrong with financial modeling PLUS! fail fast? Excellent points, I'm going to book mark this blog entry. BTW… what's wrong with financial modeling PLUS! fail fast?

]]> By: cnh http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/01/25/building-products-for-mass-adoption/comment-page-2/#comment-12150 cnh Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:09:54 +0000 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/?p=1818#comment-12150 Awesome post Mark. Awesome post Mark.

]]> By: cnh http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/01/25/building-products-for-mass-adoption/comment-page-2/#comment-3624 cnh Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:09:54 +0000 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/?p=1818#comment-3624 Awesome post Mark. Awesome post Mark.

]]> By: From a Look Inside the Boxee to Curing Cancer « The Product Guy http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/01/25/building-products-for-mass-adoption/comment-page-2/#comment-3623 From a Look Inside the Boxee to Curing Cancer « The Product Guy Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:39:44 +0000 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/?p=1818#comment-3623 [...] http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/01/25/building-products-for-mass-adoption/ Achieve mass adoption by appealing to the "Normals". Right? [...] [...] http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/01/25/building-products-for-mass-adoption/ Achieve mass adoption by appealing to the "Normals". Right? [...]

]]> By: Steve Shapiro http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/01/25/building-products-for-mass-adoption/comment-page-2/#comment-12151 Steve Shapiro Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:14:11 +0000 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/?p=1818#comment-12151 Mark - #1 really hits home for me. When you interview entrepreneurs, instead of asking "how do you differentiate yourself from your competition?" phrase it as "what problem are you solving that your competitors fails to solve?" It amazes me how many people stutter when I ask this question. The standard "we have this feature and they don't" answer that entrepreneurs are used to giving doesn't answer this question and a product-focused guy is caught off guard while a problem-focused guy breezes right through it. Mark – #1 really hits home for me. When you interview entrepreneurs, instead of asking “how do you differentiate yourself from your competition?” phrase it as “what problem are you solving that your competitors fails to solve?” It amazes me how many people stutter when I ask this question. The standard “we have this feature and they don't” answer that entrepreneurs are used to giving doesn't answer this question and a product-focused guy is caught off guard while a problem-focused guy breezes right through it.

]]> By: Steve Shapiro http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/01/25/building-products-for-mass-adoption/comment-page-2/#comment-3622 Steve Shapiro Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:14:11 +0000 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/?p=1818#comment-3622 Mark - #1 really hits home for me. When you interview entrepreneurs, instead of asking "how do you differentiate yourself from your competition?" phrase it as "what problem are you solving that your competitors fails to solve?" It amazes me how many people stutter when I ask this question. The standard "we have this feature and they don't" answer that entrepreneurs are used to giving doesn't answer this question and a product-focused guy is caught off guard while a problem-focused guy breezes right through it. Mark – #1 really hits home for me. When you interview entrepreneurs, instead of asking “how do you differentiate yourself from your competition?” phrase it as “what problem are you solving that your competitors fails to solve?” It amazes me how many people stutter when I ask this question. The standard “we have this feature and they don't” answer that entrepreneurs are used to giving doesn't answer this question and a product-focused guy is caught off guard while a problem-focused guy breezes right through it.

]]> By: Lucas Dailey http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/01/25/building-products-for-mass-adoption/comment-page-2/#comment-12152 Lucas Dailey Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:01:19 +0000 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/?p=1818#comment-12152 Great post, I definitely agree that this is one area many startups fall short. To me, this illustrates one of the reasons I’m less bullish on Twitter than is fashionable. In a tweet today you linked to a great case study by Duncan Malcolm analyzing the first Twitter experience by a Normal. I’d submit it might be appropriate to link as an example somewhere in your post.<br><br><a href="http://www.duncanmalcolm.com/2010/01/26/experiment-twitter-usability-new-users-first-experience/" rel="nofollow">http://www.duncanmalcolm.com/2010/01/26/experim...</a> Great post, I definitely agree that this is one area many startups fall short. To me, this illustrates one of the reasons I’m less bullish on Twitter than is fashionable. In a tweet today you linked to a great case study by Duncan Malcolm analyzing the first Twitter experience by a Normal. I’d submit it might be appropriate to link as an example somewhere in your post.

http://www.duncanmalcolm.com/2010/01/26/experim…

]]> By: Knowtu » links for 2010-01-26 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/01/25/building-products-for-mass-adoption/comment-page-2/#comment-3621 Knowtu » links for 2010-01-26 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:07:59 +0000 http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/?p=1818#comment-3621 [...] Building Products for Mass Adoption (tags: entrepreneurship startups) [...] [...] Building Products for Mass Adoption (tags: entrepreneurship startups) [...]

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