Does it make you win?

http://blog.kippt.com/2012/08/12/does-it-make-you-win/

by enra • 14 years ago

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Swizec• 14 years ago

That's a solid and simple piece of advice.

And coincidentally I just discovered Kippt because of this and it looks interesting. Will be checking it out.

enra2• 14 years ago

Great. Let us know what you think about it :)

csallen• 14 years ago

Another way to think of this is in terms of opportunity costs. Every day you spend working on A is a day you're not working on B, C, D, etc. So, assuming you have a list of ideas that includes some game winners, you'd be remiss to spend time on other things. Even if you don't have any game winners, you have to measure the cost of working on mediocre ideas vs brainstorming for good ideas.

enra2• 14 years ago

Yeah that's a good point.

Specially if you're a builder, you tend jump on building things as soon as something excites you. Sometimes it works, but sometimes the ideas might exciting but not that meaningful.

tarr11• 14 years ago

Working solely on what makes you win (always) seems to be at odds with 20% time, or "slack" (where you focus on whatever you want, regardless of priority)

Curious as to how you reconcile those things.

millerski150• 14 years ago

Good point. In the really early stages of a startup, it would seem best err on the side of focusing on maximizing the potential / value of "what makes you win" given the danger at that stage tends to be doing too many (unfocused) things. I still think "slack" time is important, but only after what "makes you win" is running out of juice or you need a different stepping type / level of stepping stone when expanding (say, when you cross $10,000 users and you've run out of friends / acquaintances to sign up). As you get bigger, it's probably easier to more formally dedicate people and time to "slack"

nanijoe• 14 years ago

It all sounds good in theory, but if we all KNEW what makes us win, we would all just do it and be super successful right? So maybe someone first needs to come up with a formula for how to know what makes you win

3stripe• 14 years ago

Sounds like 'validated learning' to me, see http://theleanstartup.com/principles

yessql• 14 years ago

I wish I had read this and thought about it a week ago, before I decided to teach myself golang, which ate up my free time. Is learning an experimental unpopular language going to help me win? Fat chance.

barlog• 14 years ago

what would make you win? in Japan 侘び寂び for Zen 禅。

Does it make you win?

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