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I can agree with that for the most part. The only point I don't exactly agree on is putting too much weight on being first to market. Like you said, being firs

I can agree with that for the most part. The only point I don't exactly agree on is putting too much weight on being first to market. Like you said, being first to market comes with the burden of having to educate the market about what the offering even is, whereas having competition means the market exists already and you won't have to do (as much of) this work. In the end, there are plenty of examples of best-in-market beating first-to-market, and vice versa. And here we are trying to predict the weather :p

hinkley 6y ago
I'm not a big fan of first to market myself, but it does seem to get some people to pay attention, so I'm not afraid of dangling that carrot if it suits me. Feedback is important. It's not the only thing that's important, but it's important. Sitting on a bunch of dark code means you won't get any feedback, and when you do get it, it won't be usable (too late to reverse course).