Re:Lessons Steve Jobs Taught Guy Kawasaki
by redcap on Friday October 07, 2011 @11:39PM
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11. Real entrepreneurs ship
Guy went on to say that if you have jumped curves, then "Don't worry, be crappy" - it's ok to be a bit crappy in this case.
The example he gave was the Apple laser printer as a revolution over the daisy printer. It was expensive, had a slow network interface and only printed 8x11. But that was ok because it had jumped a curve over the previous products, hence it was shipped.
One other example I can think of is the original iPhone - it wasn't perfect, but 3 years ahead of the competition when it shipped.
Guy went on to say that if you have jumped curves, then "Don't worry, be crappy" - it's ok to be a bit crappy in this case.
The example he gave was the Apple laser printer as a revolution over the daisy printer. It was expensive, had a slow network interface and only printed 8x11. But that was ok because it had jumped a curve over the previous products, hence it was shipped.
One other example I can think of is the original iPhone - it wasn't perfect, but 3 years ahead of the competition when it shipped.