Craiglist started as an email list of events in San Francisco. MailChimp started as tool to help consulting clients get more customers. It was ran as a side project for 6 years.
Slack was a pivot from an online role playing game. The remote team built an internal tool to help them chat with employees more effectively.
GitHub started as a weekend project to help developers share code.
Groupon was supposed to be a social media platform that helped people solve problems together. Some users used the site to get a group discount. The company decided to make a new site dedicated to group buying.
Some of the best businesses started as something completely different. It usually takes hard work and some luck to discover a good business idea.
Slack was a pivot from an online role playing game. The remote team built an internal tool to help them chat with employees more effectively.
GitHub started as a weekend project to help developers share code.
Groupon was supposed to be a social media platform that helped people solve problems together. Some users used the site to get a group discount. The company decided to make a new site dedicated to group buying.
Some of the best businesses started as something completely different. It usually takes hard work and some luck to discover a good business idea.