Solving Chicken and Egg Problems

I gave a talk at #HNLondon about solving chicken and egg problems that happen quite frequently in web startups.

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1. Solving Chicken- and-Egg Problems   Mike Bestvina @mbesto IgniteLab.net / techdisruptive.com / competehub.com
2. IgniteLab.net CompeteHub.com
3. How will you get users? If your idea is the type that faces a chicken-and-egg problem in the sense that it won't be attractive to users till it has a lot of users (e.g. a marketplace, a dating site, an ad network), how will you overcome that?
5. JOKE TIME  
7. CASE STUDIES (and lessons)  
10. Lesson 1 Some problems are best served by humans
13. Lesson 2 Backwards-compatibility
14. FACEBOOK (and every other damn social network out there)  
17. Lesson  3   Focus  on  personal  value  first,  then  social  value  
18. PRETTY MUCH EVERY REVIEW SITE  
21. Lesson  4   Fake  it  
22. GLOBAL WEBSITES  
25. Lesson  5   Big  global  problems,  require  local  solu=ons  
26. FEAR  
29. THESE ATHLETES THESE TRIATHLON BRANDS want to discover these.... ...want to acquire these +5000 more
30. Local   Personal  Value   Crowdsourcing   Long  Tail  
31. Mike Bestvina @mbesto IgniteLab.net / techdisruptive.com / competehub.com QUESTIONS?