Friends, fans and followers

Humans love to count. Here’s a list of some somethings we count obsessively:

1. Our age
2. Our money
3. The value of our house
4. Salaries
5. The value of 401K (superannuation fund)
6. Population
7. Members
8. Friends, Fans, Followers
9. Hits, views, comments.
10. Market share
11. Percentage profit
12. Traffic road toll

Really, we count almost everything. None of us are immune to this human symptom of counting. It’s the ultimate technique for organising and planning, in fact it’s what makes us top of the food chain.

So the question for startups is this: What are you tools are your creating that  your people count and compete with?

Revolutions and pleasure

In the October 1994 Issue of Wired, Gary Wolfe said in an article,  article about Mosiac (the worlds first GUI web browser) and the coming internet revolution.

“When it comes to smashing a paradigm, pleasure is not the most important thing…

it is the only thing.”

Startup blog asks this:

What kind of pleasure is your startup bringing to its people?