Operations Product Product Name Technical Cofounder 
Up and Running
MARCH 1, 2016
Coming up with an idea or inventing a product is a process that takes commitment, dedication, and self-belief. Ultimately, inventing a product or coming up with an idea means one thing: solving a problem, whether it’s your own or someone else’s. What product doesn’t function like people wish it would? Step 5: Protect your idea.
reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
Normally, you’d expect us to explain our product — i.e., what “professional people search 2.0” To show potential revenue streams, we listed three products: ads, listings, and subscriptions. The blue boxes identify the corresponding markets for those products. We had two questions to answer: What is the product?
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