Scott Adams Blog: The Pivot 06/16/2014
Jay Liew stashed this in startups
Stashed in: 106 Miles, Lean, Dilbert, Psychology!, Startup
He's right, this IS interesting:
In an environment in which start-up resources are not limited, and no one can predict the next winner, and it is easy to measure customer behavior in great detail, the Internet is no longer a technology.
The Internet is a psychology experiment.
Building a product for the Internet is now the easy part. Getting people to understand the product and use it is the hard part. And the only way to make the hard part work is by testing one psychological hypothesis after another.
Every entrepreneur is now a psychologist by trade. The ONLY thing that matters to success in our anything-is-buildable Internet world is psychology. How does the customer perceive this product? What causes someone to share? What makes virality happen? What makes something sticky?
3:46 PM Jun 16 2014