A Solid Process Lays The Foundation For

The Lesson Of The Mvp Is That Any Additional Work Beyond What Was Required To Start Learning Is Waste, No Matter How Important It Might Have Seemed At The Time.

A Head Start Is Rarely Large Enough To Matter, And Time Spent In Stealth Mode-away From Customers-is Unlikely To Provide A Head Start. The Only Way To Win Is To Learn Faster Than Anyone Else.

Science And Vision Are Not Opposites Or Even At Odds. They Need Each Other. I Sometimes Hear Other Startup Folks Say Something Along The Lines Of: 'if Entrepreneurship Was A Science, Then Anyone Could Do It.' I'd Like To Point Out That Even Science Is A Science, And Still Very Few People Can Do It, Let Alone Do It Well.

You Know How People Always Talk About How Vision Is The Key To Entrepreneurship And Perseverance And Really Seeing What Other People Don't See? We Can Actually Redeem A Fair Amount Of That Folk Wisdom.

If You Cannot Fail, You Cannot Learn.