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another this week in Startups. We're doing an all-ask Jason incredible questions

from founders for me. The first one is from Sasha. Go ahead Sasha. Hi Jason, my name is Sasha

Felon. Question number one, I'm creating a marketplace for selling used-goats and furniture.

I'm a startup so I don't have eight to ten thousand dollars to create a custom-made marketplace

platform. I need to build a quality MVP. What would you recommend? All right, let's go with question

number one. First, if you're going to do a marketplace, there are many different marketplace

pieces of software out of the box. But the easier thing to do is to just make a landing page with

the Squarespace type website, put the items up, and you can actually do this manually. If you're

not going to have that many pieces of furniture up there and it's going to be unique, most people

would say, don't overthink it and do it manually. In other words, as Paul Graham said in a famous essay,

do things that don't scale. Before you actually commit to making software, just doing off the shelf

software is a much easier way to do it. So you make a landing page, you put the software up,

and you say, click here to buy. Squarespace has that purchasing built-in. There's obviously

Magento and Shopify and other pieces of software that would start to get a little more complicated,

I think. Maybe Shopify and Magento would get a little bit more difficult. But certainly, you know,

Shopify is somewhat easier and then on the really easiest side would be Squarespace. Let's take

your second question. Question number two, my second project is a medium. I have a network

of local media resources across the US. Do you think media startups have good investment potential?

And how would you recommend raising funds for this type of projects? Okay, media is a terrible

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