In a great market - a market with lots of real potential customers - the market pulls product out of the startup.

The market needs to be fulfilled and the market will be fulfilled, by the first viable product that comes along.

The product doesn’t need to be great; it just has to basically work. And, the market doesn’t care how good the team is, as long as the team can produce that viable product.

In short, customers are knocking down your door to get the product; the main goal is to actually answer the phone and respond to all the emails from people who want to buy.

And when you have a great market, the team is remarkably easy to upgrade on the fly.

This is the story of search keyword advertising, and Internet auctions, and TCP/IP routers.

Conversely, in a terrible market, you can have the best product in the world and an absolutely killer team, and it doesn’t matter—you’re going to fail.

this is me talking, not marc

when it comes down to it

until you have a hypersatisfied paying client base you are a hobby, not a business

but because of this I learn he’s the CEO of the heroic Creative Commons.

i hope to meet Joi Ito.

In addition to his past brilliance Marc wrote the most important blog post I have ever read.

It’s the one about

PRODUCT-MARKET FIT.

He says it’s the only thing that matters.

I think he’s 100% correct.

Zuck is counting on her to turn traffic into cash.

I have some ideas for her, because I’m sort of in the same line of work ! :)

How will we “monetize” METANOTES ?

• Enterprise brainstorming will be huge.
  • Especially given the trend towards telemarketing and knowledge sharing.

i’m doing this to “simulate collaboration” on METANOTES.

it’s going to be a lot more fun after the millions of users we anticipate after we debut at TechCrunch50 :)

this was a few years ago

i was selling stickers at the trade show

he came up and told me that i had a great idea there and to keep it up :)

there’s just about nothing om’s written about Web 2.0 that I disagree with.

he’s right there in the thick of things and like Scoble willing to call Silicon Valley on its hype – while still celebrating the magic of The New Internet.

right on Om Malik !!!

just like ev from twitter/blogger, these guys both created BRANDS that were DESTINED TO DOMINATE their respective fields.

We believe that

METANOTES = BRAINSTORMING

is a great, untapped brand strategy many people will love.

you can’t get more disruptive than that.

“oh let’s just take on the entire banking/credit card industry with a website… it’s 1997, this is the modern age!”

visionary

come on diggnation is a freaking classic !

group brainstorming must be real time.

METANOTES is real time.

Brainstorming tools currently available include:

• pen and paper
• meetings at corporations
• pulling out a notebook at a campfire at Burning Man
• mindmaps
• wikis
• um, microsoft office ?

there is nothing like this out there.

FInally I’m in.

it is ironic demonstrating a “collaboration” platform by yourself !!! :)

that would be awesome.

after scrolling around here for a bit, i hope you will get the idea.

so let’s brainstorm.

After you create a new account, tell me your username and we can brainstorm.

actually just a second browser on computer number one.

in effect, i am getting set to “brainstorm with myself”.

notice how every note forms a jumping off point for every other note.

i will sense your presence

it has been years...

astounding what you’ve accomplished since then.

can’t wait to catch up !!!

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just filmed a tiny video

Brainstorming must be made MORE FUN.

There isn’t a GREAT APPLICATION for brainstorming together online

• we believe this is so much more fun than a wiki or mindmap

METANOTES is a real-time brainstorming board which lets me build upon yesterday’s ideas today.

i’m so excited to show this to you Jason

it works a lot like chat merged

incredibly excited about the chance to display what we’re building to such luminaries.

think about it – it’s like a spreadsheet of people.

it works like a wiki…. but it’s different....

i’m going to brainstorm about each of the judges right now, in fact.

not to mention, an icon of two of my favorite disruptive innovation tactics:

• triggering substitution effects
  • salesforce saw how wretched enterprise SFA was before they existed
  • they did to enterprise SFA what netflix did to blockbuster
    • leveraged the obvious distribution advantage of the Internet to demolish the old way of doing things
• choosing a market that’s willing to pay.