A configured spreadsheet for your domain including best practices as guardrails is pretty useful, actually!

· Bits and Bobs 6/24/24

This is one of the reasons the vertical saas niche techniques are so effective.

Own a niche and then set defaults for everyone that are pretty good and put everyone's mind at ease.

A customer: "I don't know what I'm doing but I know this works!"

When the customers are in different geographical niches they don't have to worry about competing as much with other customers of the platform doing basically the same things, following the path of least resistance of the guardrails of the tool.

Although this nichification creates monoculture.

Lots of geographically distributed companies who are all executing the same playbook; if that playbook is invalidated it could kill all of the players executing it.

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