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mason55 on Oct 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Startup Fuck-ups: How we lost 25% of our monthly r...

This is the whole idea behind economic specialization & division of labor[1]. And even if you were to be better at sending email than Mailchimp it's likely that you're even more better at your core competency which means that you should farm out your email sending and focus on your specialization.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_labour

joshuacc on Oct 30, 2014 [–]

I think the specific term you are looking for is comparative advantage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage

mason55 on Oct 30, 2014 | [–]

Yup - that is indeed what I meant to put. That's what I get for posting while on the phone.

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