The 3 things that matter

If you’re building a social network, community, SaaS or anything similar to that, these are the only things that really matter: Growth Engagement Monetization And not necessarily in that order. My friend, Nir Eyal, refers to startups that have these things as GEMs (get it?). Whenever he invests in startups, he looks for products that have at least two of those, and a plan for the third. So, I created this quick Venn diagram illustrating why Growth, Engagement, and Monetization are so important:...

March 23, 2015