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I think its a distinction between the type of person that says "I want to build a business, I think building product X sounds like a good way to do so" and the type that thinks "I want to build product X, I think building a business sounds like a good way to do so"

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What’s interesting to me is that Amazon appears to be the former. Bezos wanted to start an Internet business, and he thought that books were a good way to do it. He was much more interested in the business model than anything to do with books specifically.

Apple and google seem to be more of the latter

Great insight.

For me, I just wanted to learn React/Node and picked the context of Electron.

Since I was a hardware/software integrator… I thought: what is the best common hardware with the worst software? Label printers!

Now, after 4 years of pure software I’m launching a new brand of 300 dpi label printers.

The value I’m offering Mac users is a blue ocean strategy: creating huge value at low cost whereas my windows version is more purple ocean (some blood in the water)… since I’m disrupting incumbents on the lower/middle sized end.

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