{"id":3139,"date":"2018-09-01T21:27:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T03:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2018-09-01T21:27:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T03:27:32","slug":"atoms-and-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/3139","title":{"rendered":"Atoms and Bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/atom-1674878_640-300x300.png\" alt=\"Atom\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3141\" srcset=\"http:\/\/edit.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/atom-1674878_640-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/edit.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/atom-1674878_640-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/edit.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/atom-1674878_640.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I found <a href=\"https:\/\/avc.com\/2018\/08\/atoms-and-bits\/\">this post<\/a> by Fred Wilson about atoms and bits to be a nice counterpoint to <a href=\"http:\/\/cdixon.org\/2014\/03\/15\/full-stack-startups\/\">this post<\/a> from a few years back by Chris Dixon. There are so many advantages that a software product has over a business that delivers physical goods, whether that is inventory, startup costs, or distribution. (Yes, if you build a mobile app, you have to pay the vig to Apple\/Google, but you also can distribute at zero incremental cost to hundreds of millions of people.) From Fred&#8217;s post:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>we should &#8230; understand that the timelines [for working on businesses that focus on atoms] will be longer and the road to adoption will be more challenging.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The fact is that atoms are just harder to work with than bits. However, that very difficulty can provide a moat around your business (&#8220;where there&#8217;s muck there&#8217;s brass&#8221;). If your business is bits, find another moat (branding, network effects, niche domination).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this post by Fred Wilson about atoms and bits to be a nice counterpoint to this post from a few years back by Chris Dixon. There are so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}