1. Important to be mission driven all the time 2. Best to always target a market that is small , but rapidly growing - Reason why ? - The people in these markets are desperate for a good product - They are more forgiving towards a product that is not perfect , but is constantly evolving - So what would our best choice of market be ? - Small but rapid markets : PKM , digital gardening , productivity , graph based database, note taking - LArge but slow growing : Academia 3. Answer these questions : 1. Why start now ? 2. Why not start after a few years ? - If you can answer them , then just go for it/ 4. Always better to build something that a small number of users will LOVE , rather than a product that a large number of users will just like . It's always easy to go from a small loving group to a larger group , rather than from a large liking group to large loving group who will pay for the product . 1. Take home message from this : shape codex and sell it to the small user group that will definitely love . 2. This is why Roam won , it was buit for a very small group of users who loved it and then marketed it by themselves 5.