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I think a lot more people persevere past the point of salvation than persevere against long odds and succeed. There's no clear cut answer to determining 100% of
by ineedasername 4y ago
I think a lot more people persevere past the point of salvation than persevere against long odds and succeed. There's no clear cut answer to determining 100% of the time, in the moment, if failure is a foregone conclusion, but that doesn't mean you should stick it out until the bitter end. Since most startups fail anyway, if you're already near failure mode then the bias should be in needing an extremely compelling reason-- beyond blind perserverence-- to keep going. Otherwise just salvage anything that might be salvaged and try something else with the new benefit of experience.
"What would you do differently" is easily answered with "anything but the thing that just failed."
- SiempreViernes 4y ago> I think a lot more people persevere past the point of salvation than persevere against long odds and succeed One would hope so, that's the definition of long odds!
- ineedasername 4y agoYes, I realized that semantic issue when I wrote it :). But I figured the meaning was clear enough anyway and I would have tried to hold my ground rhetorically against a counter argument purely on that basis, though I do enjoy arguing from positions where I can't possibly wrong.