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Flywheels & MVPs
Markets in the internet and technology age are conducive to winner-take-all effects: If you are first to stumble upon some flywheel/ a good user loop, the returns are even greater than they would've in any other era in history.
If a flywheel requires three or four or even more things to connect in your app, it takes more work to ship all of them at once, and that feels like a riskier expenditure of your team's time. Especially when founders think minimum releases are the way to go. A good flywheel is not very minimum.
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The creative blank slate
The toughest job for any creative is the cold start. The blinking cursor on the blank page in a new document.
The beauty of TikTok's FYP algorithm and the Discover page is that you don't have to create a TikTok from scratch. The vast majority of TikToks are riffs o...
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Tik Tok Stich
You can also post a question in a video and expect that some number of people will "Stitch" an answer to your question and distribute that as a new video.
A popular prompt is "Tell me you're X without telling m...
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Tiktok as assisted meme evolution
Richard Dawkins introduced the term meme in his classic The Selfish Gene, defining it as a unit of information that spreads via imitation. He noted that memes evolve via natural selection just as in evolution.
The internet has always been a fertile grou...
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When to give up on an idea?
According to Jeff Bezos: "When the last smart person in the room gives up on the idea."
It also implies that you should bring some ideas back when a new smart person, or maybe a naive overconfident one, enters the room and champions the idea.
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The Network Effects of Tik Tok Creativity
Every additional user on TikTok makes every other user more creative.
On old social networks you have to create your own version of a meme from scratch. But TikTok lowers the barrier to the literal remixing of everyone else's content. They have a wealth of features that make it dead...
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Tik Tok Duet
On TikTok, you can just press the Duet button and start talking into your phone, and soon you have a side-by-side of the original video and your reaction video (youc an choose from any number of their preset layouts for reactions). That's an explicit productivity boost; I can measure it in time s...
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- Hire people you can trust. And trust the people you hire;
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