cold-start-problem
Start and scale networked products using Andrew Chen's "The Cold Start Problem" framework for network effects. Use when the user mentions "network effects", "chicken and egg", "cold start", "two-sided marketplace", "atomic network", "hard side", "liquidity", "critical mass", "invite-only launch", "how do I get my first users", or "the marketplace has no buyers or sellers". Also trigger when launching a marketplace, social, or collaboration product that is worthless without other users, deciding launch sequencing and seeding tactics, or diagnosing stalled network growth at scale. Covers the five stages: cold start, tipping point, escape velocity, hitting the ceiling, and the moat. For word-of-mouth virality, see contagious. For habit-driven retention, see hooked-ux.
- Version
- 1.2.0
- License
- MIT
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- skills/cold-start-problem/SKILL.md
- skills/cold-start-problem/references/atomic-networks.md
- skills/cold-start-problem/references/case-studies.md
- skills/cold-start-problem/references/hard-side.md
- skills/cold-start-problem/references/scale-ceiling-moat.md
- skills/cold-start-problem/references/tipping-playbooks.md
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