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Google completely disregarded the way the entire advertising industry worked and came up with its own solution as if it existed in a vacuum Kind of hard to com
by johnrob 16y ago
Google completely disregarded the way the entire advertising industry worked and came up with its own solution as if it existed in a vacuum
Kind of hard to combine this advice with "get out of the building". Read enough startup advice, and everything eventually becomes self contradictory. What's more valuable than advice is knowing when to use it.
- iamwil 16y agoevery piece of advice has to be abstracted out of their context in order to be transmitted to others in a succinct way. So many of the adages you hear: "execution matters more than ideas", "get out of the building", "fail fast", etc. have been abstracted out of their concrete context for when they were conceived. It's your job to take the abstract in their original context and see if it applies to you and your own context. Some people fail to do this, or they apply it in a completely wrong or different context, and just dismiss the advice too readily. And they make the mistake of never really learning the lesson. And sometimes, the way you really learn it, to understand the context in which advice comes from, is to make the same mistake yourself. Too bad, really.