Re: [projectvrm] transactional vs experiential data

[Johannes Ernst < >]

On Mar 6, 2014, at 18:25, Tom Crowl 
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> I suspect the fairly activist, thoughtful... and healthily contentious... 
> members of this group are not representative of the general population.

While you are certainly right about that one, I don't think that matters.

The general population on the internet these days is >>1 billion, so even if 
only 1% cares or understands, that's still a much larger market than we have 
all been able to address effectively.

One thing I love about the Indie Web Camp guys -- coincidentally it's Indie 
Web Camp San Francisco tomorrow and Saturday -- is that they explicitly 
declare the needs of others out of scope, and focus on developing the 
software that allows just them themselves to act on-line the way they think 
is "right". Once that works, we could take it further.

It's crossing the chasm, starting with a market segment of size 1: me. The 
market may eventually be 100% of everybody on-line, or it may not, but even 
if it falls far short, value has been created, in the right direction.

Cheers,



Johannes.