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Obvious. There was, during the dot-com bubble, a startup that said "our mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" when all their customers really wanted was to buy the top position on their search engine like one would do with an AOL keywords. You never heard about this example cause generalization just killed them. /s


That's a mission, not a problem. They had a general mission, but they were solving very specific problems with Search.

Wave, on the other hand, is a good example of a product made to solve a general problem.




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