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world class experience meaning 在 AppWorks Facebook 的精選貼文
[Undressing the Big Verticals: Finding Disruption Strategies in Greater Southeast Asia]
Huge businesses online and offline wear a facade of dominance. In a world where software and cloud storage is cheap compared to even five years ago, these facades are just facades.
Any smart founder who can understand a niche market and its customers, can disrupt these businesses by offering a much better experience to a global set of users, simply by showing that the emperors wear no clothes.
Take a look at the first photo. Each of the eight startup companies in the first image were taken out of the listings page (literally) of online classifieds business Craigslist, depicted in the second picture. This platform's offerings became so big and varied that it suffered from entropy.
The markets tapped into by these startups are bigger than what Craigslist alone could utilize. Meaning that the gold threads Craigslist was wearing were really just a myth. As submarkets became exploitable, startup founders started picking them off.
These two images offer great insights for founders in Greater Southeast Asia, where businesses are sometimes conservatively managed, and where conglomerates and gigantic industry players operate in large local markets.
This is because the new companies do one niche thing very well dating; food; home-sharing, etc. In a mobile-use heavy market, people love these apps. The focused offerings and their ease of use make them fun to use, and they solve problems quickly and efficiently.
Why does this happen? What should founders in GSEA do with this information?
1. There are two reasons why this happens. First, big platforms trying to do everything for everyone will find it hard to manage all of the areas of the business. It's a result of organizational entropy. Consumers in a diverse global software environment will be easily distracted by new choices that big organizations cannot exploit in a fast way.
It also happens because founders using cheaper and more agile software tools can find niche areas in big platforms that they can exploit much more quickly, and offer to consumers using a better user experience. They understand the needs of the niche customer better. They find ways to make it interesting and engaging.
After all, swiping left and right on Tinder is actually really fun and an engaging use of time. Right?
2. Founders in GSEA are working in a region where it should be relatively easy to find big industry players in the market and find ways of disrupting their existing dominance.
In a region that is still relatively conservative in business compared to the rest of the world, and where large conglomerate players usually dominate the local markets, software disruption is primed and ready.
If you would like to test out exploits and software platform ideas in niche areas dominated by big industry players in a gigantic market, check out our accelerator class #20.
We are taking applications until December 16. Join here: http://bit.ly/AWdisrupt
Image source: Platforms vs Verticals and the Next Great Unbundling by a16z -- https://a16z.com/2019/09/11/platforms-verticals-unbundling/
Doug Crets
Media and Communications, AppWorks Accelerator
world class experience meaning 在 謙預 Qianyu.sg Facebook 的最讚貼文
【相煎何太急】(English writing below)
「90%以上的風水師都把基本原理搞錯了!」
那天看到某個剛出道的本地年輕人,在其網站上如此寫著。
我第一個感想就是:有必要為了錢,就這樣踩人和騙人嗎?
全世界的風水師,你都見證過他們的功夫嗎?
遠的不說,就說說新加坡吧!全職、兼職、玩票性質的都算的話,我想可能有幾千幾百位風水師。有的是拜師學藝或祖傳的,有的是在外上課程,然後就自己出來看。
這些你全部都已摸清他們的底細,來下此結論嗎?還是是道聽途說?
如果沒有真實查證,那就是在唬人,故意讓看過其他師父的客人,內心生起不安而來找你。
很大的口氣,很不道德的行銷法,來博名利雙收。
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幾年前,有位女風水師寫貼文抹黑我。我的一位風水講座的出席者好心為我打抱不平,安慰我之餘,告訴我她的朋友認識那位風水師,而她的性傾向是......
我沒給她說完,便切斷她的話:「我們再講下去,就是在聊是非了。這不是我的作風。」
抹黑我和她喜歡誰是兩碼事。
抹黑我,來贏得臉書上的讚,是她人品的問題。我如果取笑她的性傾向,那就是我人格的問題。己所不欲,勿施於人,我沒有想要在背後傷害她,何必同流合污呢?
再說,喜歡誰,不影響我們的專業能力和志向。
只是說,一個會製造假象的風水師,客人是否還可以把自己和家人的命運交到她手中?
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某位女讀者告訴我,她家人和馬國一位有名風水師的經歷。說著說著,她提到這位風水師不會說華文。字裡行間彷彿帶著取笑的味道。
我回她說,我不討論別人的是是非非。
這風水師能把中華玄學帶到全世界,讓洋人對我們華人文化刮目相看,也是美事一樁。再說,他的崛起也讓年輕的華人再度重視中華玄學。我們為何要去挑他的不足來興論一番?有何意義呢?口袋不會多一點錢,造了口業,自己的福報還會被扣給他,不值得。
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我們風水命理師都必須精通八卦學,為的是去利益眾生,而不是把自己變成「八卦新聞台」,去娛樂大家。
套我大師姐以前常跟我說的一句話:「不要自己的餅乾做不好,而變成一個“笑餅”。」
外面已經有很多人看不起我們,不相信我們,甚至取笑我們是「無知識」、「搞神通」、「騙人錢」的江湖術士。如果我們風水師都在那兒,又是屠龍刀又是倚天劍又是降龍十八掌的自相殘殺,人家只是看笑話而已。不但贏不到客人,我們還終歸是最大的輸家。
無論是什麼學派的風水,追溯到底的話,大家『本是同根生』。
各位英雄豪傑,何不把精力用在教育大眾,以身試範如何做個上等人,以配得起一個上等命呢?
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"More than 90% Feng Shui practitioners are doing the basics wrong!"
I saw this from website of a young Feng Shui entrepreneur, who just started to ply his trade.
My first thought was: is it necessary to trample over others and deceive others, for the sake of money?
Have you witnessed the abilities of all Feng Shui Masters from all over the world?
Let's not go too far, and just take Singapore for instance. If we include all the full-timers, part-timers and hobbyists, I think there are easily several hundreds, if not thousands, Feng Shui practitioners. Some of them studied under a Master for years, while some acquire the knowledge from their ancestors. And there are those who become consultants, after attending external courses.
Did you do a very thorough check on their skills, before drawing this conclusion? Or did you base your statement on hearsay?
If there is no verifiable truth and authentic checks, then you are just trying to bluff your way through. You deliberately stir up emotions of insecurity in people who have consulted other masters, so as to lure them to you.
What big words. What unethical way of marketing just to make yourself some money.
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Few years ago, a lady Feng Shui practitioner wrote untruths about me on her FB. One workshop participant of mine felt unjust for me, and as she offered words of consolation to me, she mentioned that a friend of hers knew that Feng Shui practitioner whose sexual orientation was actually...
I did not let her finish her words, "If we continue talking about this, we would be engaging in gossip. That is not my style."
Smearing my name and who she likes are two different matters.
To defame me so as to win more FB Likes is a problem in her character. If I laugh at her sexual orientation with others so as to feel better, that becomes my morality problem. Do not do unto others what you do not wish for others to do to you. I have no intention to hurt her behind her back, so why should I wallow in the mire together?
Moreover, whoever we like does not have any influence on our professional capability and aspiration.
The only thing that matters: Is a Feng Shui practitioner who deliberately creates falsehoods deserving of clients' trust, for them to place their destinies and families in her hands?
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One female reader told me about her family's experience with a well-known Feng Shui master. As the conversation progressed, she mentioned how this master was unable to speak Mandarin. There seemed to be a hidden veil of mockery in her words.
My reply to her: I do not gossip about others.
This Feng Shui Master brought Chinese Metaphysics to the whole world, allowing the Westerners to sit up and take notice of our Chinese culture. That is a good thing after all. Secondly, his emergence inspired the younger generation of Chinese to pay attention to Chinese Metaphysics once again. Why should we focus on his weak point and make a hooha about it? What meaning is there? Not like we will have more money in our pockets. Also when we commit sins in our speech by gossiping about him, we will cede our good fortune to him.
No way is it worth it.
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As Chinese Metaphysics practitioners, we have to study the Bagua very well to be able to benefit sentient beings. Not study gossip and become an entertainment news station for the amusement of the masses.
There are already many outsiders who look down on us, disbelieve us and even laugh at us as conmen who are ignorant, promoting supernatural stuff and cheat others of money. If we continue to cut at one another's throats, these people will just be eating popcorn as they watch us.
Instead of winning over more clients, we will turn out to be the biggest losers.
No matter what school of Feng Shui we are from, if we trace all the way back to the origins, we are all born from the same root.
To all fellow heroes and comrades, why don't we focus our efforts in educating the masses? Lead by example and demonstrate to them how to be a first-class human worthy of a premium Destiny.