Re:The Scarcest Resource at Startups is Management Bandwidth
by wpietri on Saturday April 28, 2012 @11:38PM
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There's an important difference, though.
At my startup we've tried a lot of things, but we try them serially. We went through a bunch of ideas early on, doing our best to kill the idea in prototype. Here my co-founder talks about how we spent 6 weeks to kill an idea that other people spent 9 months (and millions of dollars) to kill:
The failure mode that Suster talks about is trying to do all the ideas in parallel. I agree that startups should try a lot of things, but strongly believe they should focus on one at a time.
At my startup we've tried a lot of things, but we try them serially. We went through a bunch of ideas early on, doing our best to kill the idea in prototype. Here my co-founder talks about how we spent 6 weeks to kill an idea that other people spent 9 months (and millions of dollars) to kill:
http://vimeo.com/24749599
The failure mode that Suster talks about is trying to do all the ideas in parallel. I agree that startups should try a lot of things, but strongly believe they should focus on one at a time.