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Why we picked it Nineteen concrete launch moves, drawn from NFX advising sixty plus marketplace startups, rather than another abstract essay about network effects. The tactics about constraining geography and time and about manually fulfilling early orders are exactly the unscalable work most marketplace founders try to skip.

19 Tactics to Solve the Chicken-or-Egg Problem and Grow Your Marketplace

From NFX by James Currier 20 min read

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Answers We are a marketplace, not a software product. What actually changes about GTM?

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Why we picked it An audio reading of the whole memo, which plays inline here, so you can take in the argument in one pass while doing something else.

The Founders' List: Slack's Internal Memo 'We Don't Sell Saddles Here' (Famous Memos)

On NFX by Stewart Butterfield Reading of the memo

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Answers What did Slack's "We don't sell saddles here" memo actually change about how they sold?

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