18 Mistakes #5 "But openness to new ideas has to be tuned just right. Switching to a new idea every week will be equally fatal. Is there some kind of external

18 Mistakes #5 "But openness to new ideas has to be tuned just right. Switching to a new idea every week will be equally fatal. Is there some kind of external test you can use? One is to ask whether the ideas represent some kind of progression. If in each new idea you're able to re-use most of what you built for the previous ones, then you're probably in a process that converges. Whereas if you keep restarting from scratch, that's a bad sign." http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html