Simple Tools Beat Heavy Incumbent Software in New Markets
Shaan Puri · How to Stop Your Tech Addiction | My First Million #205 · Jul 31, 2021 · at 13:08
Sean Puri discusses startup dynamics and go-to-market software strategies in the newly created NCAA Name, Image, and Likeness compliance and deal-flow ecosystem.
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“I view it as in these markets, it's whoever builds this first simple, useful thing. We'll get a ton of adoption. And then it's a race between the people who tried to build the big valuable thing. And the group that got a bunch of adoption to go from small and simple to more thorough and whoever, where do those lines cross? Which group gets there first? And I like to bet on the horse where the founders identified, hey, this is a simple thing that we can get in the hands of every athlete right now or every school right now.”
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