The Hidden Power of a Market Inflection Point

When the market is "of the same mind, but not of the same voice."

We established in the first newsletter in this series that the startups that win possess an asymmetric amount of leverage over their market(s). Here is the link to the entire “Inflection Point” series.

Leverage comes from capitalizing on an inflection point.

Specifically, I have observed FIVE types of inflection points in startups: 

  1. Market inflection point

  2. Customer inflection point

  3. Consensus inflection point

  4. Product inflection point

  5. Technology inflection point

To recap, inflection points allow the startup to move from a small group of people believe in it to a mass market amount of people believe in it. Or, put another way, a secret shared by a small few becomes mass market consensus. In an inflection point, that shift happens VERY quickly. 

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