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Preparation is also a good way to waste your time procrastinating when you really need to be bold and charge into battle as an entrepreneur. "Well, gee. If I s
by larrik 15y ago
Preparation is also a good way to waste your time procrastinating when you really need to be bold and charge into battle as an entrepreneur.
"Well, gee. If I stay at my day job another 6 months, think of all the extra runway my startup will have!"
"We can't release now! Feature X isn't even ready yet!"
I would say preparedness and entrepreneurship aren't automatically great advice.
When it comes to actual war (and other direct competitions, such as a negotiation), though, the advice is spot on. Preparation is how the US got Bin Laden from an (arguably) foreign nation without a single casualty, even after losing a helicopter in the process.
- JanezStupar 15y agoIt took Steve Jobs twenty years to prepare sufficiently. And procrastination is by no means preparation. However delaying your startup for six years might be a smart move if you have a strategic plan on how to improve your odds. >"We can't release now! Feature X isn't even ready yet!": If the feature is core aspect of a product then by no means you should launch today. But if it is not a core or important feature then why did you even bother with its design and implementation. These are by no means easy questions. And there are no easy answers. Thats why it is always wise to be realistic about ones goals and prepare. Doing your first startup might also just be a preparation and if it fails you should not back off - but realize that you failed since you were insufficiently prepared. Dietrich Mateschitz was 40 years old when he founded Red Bull - and his life was (unknowingly) one big preparation for the Big One.
- nhangen 15y agoIf I could star this post, I would. Wise perspective and good reminder to be patient and strategic.