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brc on Nov 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: "Build something people want" is not enough

And a skilled marketer helps people see the problems they didn't even realise they had. Huge success is where a visionary solves a problem that customers either don't know they have, or can't imagine being solved, and then communicates the solution to everyone who does have, or could have, the problem.

roel_v on Nov 16, 2011 [–]

But still, the problem needs to exist, even if it takes work to make people realize they have it.

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