"Perfection has no business in the world of entrepreneurship," Charlie Harary says in Entrepreneur.
Today's marketplace is "supersonic," so entrepreneurs must tightly cap opportunity costs—and quality.
He quotes LinkedIn founder Reed Hoffman: "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late."
Products need only be "minimally viable," Harary says, and businesses thick-skinned.
"A little criticism or failure never killed anyone. Learn to embrace it and use it to make you great."
In other words, scrap excellence for the quick buck and one day you, too, will run a respected company.
This wolfish mindset explains why so many of the apps we buy are broken; the books, riddled with typos; the drugs, full of dangerous side effects.
It's not because we lack talent.
It's because we're in such a goddamned hurry.
As novelist Irving Stone said in The Agony and the Ecstasy, “Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive."
He quotes LinkedIn founder Reed Hoffman: "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late."
Products need only be "minimally viable," Harary says, and businesses thick-skinned.
"A little criticism or failure never killed anyone. Learn to embrace it and use it to make you great."
In other words, scrap excellence for the quick buck and one day you, too, will run a respected company.
This wolfish mindset explains why so many of the apps we buy are broken; the books, riddled with typos; the drugs, full of dangerous side effects.
It's not because we lack talent.
It's because we're in such a goddamned hurry.
As novelist Irving Stone said in The Agony and the Ecstasy, “Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive."
