Neil Young: Evaluating platform shifts requires assessing timing and changed user behavior
Neil Young · 20VC: How To Analyse Platform Shifts Effectively, The Effects Of Not Having Free and Open Distribution & The Right Way To Think About Board Composition with Neil Young, Founder & CEO @ N3twork · Jan 26, 2018 · at 8:58
Neil Young, founder and CEO of N3twork, outlines his strategic framework for evaluating new platforms without getting swept up in market hype.
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“And so with each shift in platform, you need to ask yourself a couple of Really simple questions is, one, when will it be real? And two, what user behavior has changed, and how do I leverage that?”
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