Lessons From a Failed Startup — From and For First Time Founders

Re:Lessons From a Failed Startup — From and For First Time F... by nostrademons on Thursday September 20, 2018 @07:44PM (#18036234)

Oftentimes you can frame it as "try both" successfully. If you have a big decision, think of the smallest, quickest way you could test both of the options and get some visibility on the results. Then do that, pick the one that's working better, and stop doing the alternative. You can at least be open to unexpected successes with this strategy, and protected against unexpected failures.

This also has the advantage of forcing you to think of the smallest, quickest way to test your hypotheses, which has a fair amount of value itself.

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Re:Lessons From a Failed Startup — From and For First Time F... by kentmori on Friday September 21, 2018 @09:23AM (#18039469)

Yeah definitely agree here. This is probably also the best way to actively to avoid "doing both" in the long term. Twitch does seem to be a great example here (as mentioned above) and Emmett also talks a bit about it in his user testing class from startup school (starting @ 2:40ish).

https://youtu.be/qAws7eXItMk

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