“if you’re not confident showing your Grandmother your web app, don’t launch it”.
Alex Turnbull, Groove (http://blog.groovehq.com/post/13829640150/the-death-of-the-mvp-minimum-viable-product-in)
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The moral of this story is that you don’t always need weeks –or even hours– to create something. Sometimes you just need to stop over-thinking things and trust your creative impulses. That’s what makes working with startups so great. http://sachagreif.com/how-i-designed-codeyear-com-in-1-hour/ Sacha Greif, creating CodeYear in around an hour
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*Blast from the Past*
“After joining, I was most surprised to find that Facebook’s motto of “Move fast and break things” is real. I’ll never forget my second day on the job when Chris Cox, our V.P. of Product, assigned me the task to fix a pretty complex bug in News Feed. I’d never written php in my life, but a few hours later when I got my code working and ready for review, he said “Cool, ship it!” with a big smile on his face. At first I didn’t think he was serious, but once it shipped, I realized that I had just pushed out a change on my second day that 25 million people would experience instantly.”
– Pedram Keyani on 3 Years at FacebookFEEL THE POWER. And read the rest here — it’s pretty rad.
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Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it. You need product, design, and software engineering skills on the team. And you need to be focused, committed, and driven. Management at this point is all about small team dynamics; everyone on board, working together, and getting stuff done. Strong individual contributors are key in this stage. Fred Wilson (avc.com) on partnerships, not armies to build products
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If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.
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Making mistakes is part of the process of building a company; quickly recovering from them is what’s most important. It’s all part of the adventure of entrepreneurship, which will require all of your stamina, drive and determination.
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It’s really an important point. We try to teach entrepreneurs not to launch in the press, with all due respect. When you’re iterating and making mistakes and failing, you want to do that in private. You want to take advantage of the fact that you’re an obscure new startup and no one’s ever heard of you but a pathetically small number of customers. That’s actually a real asset. Take advantage of it. Do the big publicity push after you’ve already figured out how to build a sustainable business. We call it the ‘product launch’ when you put the product in front of customers — and you should do that as soon as possible — but do the marketing launch — when you’re pounding your chest and talking about how great you are — as late as possible.
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“one more thing: the revolution is not an apple, you have to make it.”
From Jim Fitpatrick’s Viva Che, F.ounders special edition
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