Episode notes
2008. India. No smartphones. No internet. But everyone had SMS. The constraint they didn't try to solve — they built on.
While every tech company in 2008 was trying to get around the lack of internet access in India, four college dropouts built on it. Innoz became the search engine for SMS — Google on a feature phone. One billion queries. Not by solving the constraint. By making the constraint the product. This episode is the most practical illustration in the series of why embracing what everyone else is fighting is the 1PU's greatest strategic move.
— THE BUILD —
What constraint in your market or your field is everyone else treating as a problem to be solved? What limitation are your competitors trying to overcome with more resources — that you could instead embrace as a design principle? Write one sentence: "While everyone else is trying to overcome [X], I am building [Y] on top of [X]."
That sentence is your product positioning statement and your competitive moat.
Don't skip this. Motivation fades by Tuesday. The BUILD happens today.
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