This is a response to Marc Andreessen's "The Only Thing that Matters" blog post (http://bluedot.us/users/mohit/dot/88893807222 ) where Marc argued that the market is the only thing that matters.

Quoted: I'd much prefer to view the dance between product and market as something far more fluid and highly reciprocal. A product can expand, and in rare cases, create a market. A market can inevitably drive the strategic direction of a product. Factors like ease-of-use, elegant design, and aesthetics that can evoke emotions and loyalty, and others can help shape wants that we never would have conceived of prior.

Marc nails it again.

Quoted: Personally, I'll take the third position -- I'll assert that market is the most important factor in a startup's success or failure.

Quoted: Spending too much time thinking about trends and "spaces" is a great way for an entrepreneurial team to go right off the rails and bring another derivative product to market, which the market then promptly ignores.