Vipul

“seven questions that every business must answer: 1. The Engineering Question Can you create breakthrough technology instead of incremental improvements? 2. The Timing Question Is now the right time to start your particular business? 3. The Monopoly Question Are you starting with a big share of a small market? 4. The People Question Do you have the right team? 5. The Distribution Question Do you have a way to not just create but deliver your product? 6. The Durability Question Will your market position be defensible 10 and 20 years into the future? 7. The Secret Question Have you identified a unique opportunity that others don’t see?”
― Blake Masters, Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future

“Properly understood, technology is the one way for us to escape competition in a globalizing world. As computers become more and more powerful, they won’t be substitutes for humans: they’ll be complements.”
― Blake Masters, Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future

“indefinite optimism seems inherently unsustainable: how can the future get better if no one plans for it?”
― Blake Masters, Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future

“Paradoxically, then, network effects businesses must start with especially small markets.”
― Blake Masters, Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future