When is it a sound advice, and when is it senseless?
Image this. You’re at your native Blockbuster (Sure, Blockbuster nonetheless exists on this situation) — choosing a DVD to lease for household film evening.
As you head to the checkout, one other individual rushes to you and tries handy you one other DVD.
“It is best to completely watch this documentary as a substitute. It’s ‘The Mating Habits of The Rainbow Beetle.’ Everybody’s been speaking about it, it even made the information!”.
You blink in confusion earlier than clutching your DVD tighter and shortly make your strategy to the checkout…
Okay, I’ll admit this was a bit absurd, however let’s shift the scenario and picture you’re a startup founder pitching your small business to a possible investor.
Getting unsolicited ‘recommendation’ doesn’t sound too absurd now…
Actually, one thing comparable occurred to a consumer of mine after they pitched their app to an investor.
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For some context, my consumer is greater than able to constructing this app. They’ve the talents and information to tug it off and an awesome community to leverage in kicking their startup off the bottom.
The pitch went nice.
The investor was , and my consumer was blissful till the investor stated: “Add some blockchain into your app … that makes it extra sellable.”
The app didn’t want any type of blockchain integration. The investor was making an attempt to shift the app into the blockchain market moderately than serving to my consumer introduce the app to its meant market.
Blockchain… Did the investor recommend it since folks had been speaking about it on the time?
If this occurred some time in the past, following FTX’s collapse, I might’ve thought that the investor acknowledged a chance available in the market and wished to pivot the app to deal with it.
