Releasing well-polished version of products makes sense most of the time. With all due respect to movie directors, engineers, software developers and game desig

Releasing well-polished version of products makes sense most of the time. With all due respect to movie directors, engineers, software developers and game designers you _mostly_ know how to do a movie, a car, an MP3 player, or yet another take on video editing program. Sometimes, however, things are so new that the only way to get to the good result fast (or, to get to the good result at all) you need to release early, release often. Lotus 1-2-3 was such a huge improvement over paper sheets and such a new idea that it totally warranted "release early, release often" mantra.