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            "url": "https:\/\/www.mazurchak.com\/?go=all\/the-best-quotations-from-zero-to-one-by-piter-thiel\/",
            "title": "The best quotations from Zero to One by Piter Thiel",
            "content_html": "<p>I would like to share some quotations from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0804139296\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0804139296&linkCode=as2&tag=mazurchak-20&linkId=US4UWEKTVBKV6HFJ\">Thiel’s book<\/a> about startup’s journey:<\/p>\n<p>As a good rule of thumb, proprietary technology must be at least 10 times better than its closest substitute in some important dimension to lead to a real monopolistic adventure.<\/p>\n<p>The perfect market for a startup is a small group of particular people concentrated together and served by few or no competitors. Any big market is a bad choice, and big market already served by competing companies is even worse.<\/p>\n<p>The most successful companies make the core progression — to first dominate a specific niche and then scale to adjacent markets — a part of their founding narrative.<\/p>\n<p>As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don’t disrupt: avoid competition as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p>In this one particular at least. business is like chess. Grandmaster Jose Raul Capablanca put it well: to succeed, “you must study the endgame before everything else”.<\/p>\n<p>Far more important are questions about the future: is it a matter of chance or design?<\/p>\n<p>To a difinite optimist, the future will be better than the present if he plans and works to make it better.<\/p>\n<p><br><br \/>\nWhat is more, in one of chapters, you can find an interesting moment about gender of founder: “An entrepreneur makes a major investment just by spending <b>her<\/b> time working on startup.”<\/p>\n",
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