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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

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It’s developing a differentiated product in a market where you can demonstrate value to your customers – whether they’re paying or not. They have to make the tough decisions about where to allocate scarce resources, what the future business model will become and how to compete with other large platforms out there.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

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Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. This turns out to be one of the real differentiators for Twitter. I think that today’s journalists want a simple story: “Twitter hasn’t yet proved its business model” but I think that misrepresents the long-term value.

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