A serious hoot. That's what I thought of the two links mentioned below. Then I thought again of the upheaval, the excitement in a startup, the fear, and - for these companies - ultimately, the failure. Kind of a tone of terror, when I think of it.
Nilofer infers if we're not solving a customer problem, we're not really in business.
She gets it - we got distracted by our own adrenaline.
"Harry Max sent these two links, here, and here. on web-based failures yesterday and they had me going down memory lane. From lamo things to Beenz to worthy ideas like WebVan. It is both funny and sad to see.
And so I remind you/me/everyone the simple lesson we must hold onto. Every successful company has to have a clear customer pain/problem that they MUST solve. No company, regardless of the zany notion or the fantastic technology succeeds without that."
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