Strategy: Solve Only 80 Percent of the Problem

Re:Strategy: Solve Only 80 Percent of the Problem by dschobel on Friday August 28, 2009 @04:24PM (#792214)

see also: "worse is better" and "fire your customers"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/04/the_customer...

aka "focus on high ROI stuff and cut everything else"

are we seeing a trend here yet folks or do we need to see this principle dressed up in anecdotes a few more times?

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Re:Strategy: Solve Only 80 Percent of the Problem by idlewords on Friday August 28, 2009 @05:18PM (#792308)

I think we're 80% of the way there

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Re:Strategy: Solve Only 80 Percent of the Problem by akeefer on Friday August 28, 2009 @08:59PM (#792595)

Honestly, it somewhat boggles my mind that the original poster (and the post he links to) could both discuss the issue without reference to "worse is better," as if this was some sort of new insight that Twitter and Facebook have made . . .

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Re:Strategy: Solve Only 80 Percent of the Problem by toddh on Saturday August 29, 2009 @11:22AM (#793262)

I think you are right and have Worse-is-Better to the post. We are still telling and learning from 2000 year old stories so it probably doesn't hurt to play dress up :-)

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Re:Strategy: Solve Only 80 Percent of the Problem by Ras_ on Saturday August 29, 2009 @05:55AM (#793022)

Worse is better should be Less is more, because the article is about the number of features.

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