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Exactly. Sometimes when you think your idea is good all you need is one or two other people to tell you they think its good and that's it: it's a good idea. H
by dopamean 14y ago
Exactly. Sometimes when you think your idea is good all you need is one or two other people to tell you they think its good and that's it: it's a good idea. How did Instagram come to the conclusion that their idea was a good idea? Or any other startup for that matter. If Zillionears turned out to be a success no one would have thought that having a few people say "good idea" in the beginning was insufficient to get started.
- nemrow 14y agoI totally agree with that! There are tons of companies that "win the lottery", and build a product with no validation and succeed. It is obviously not the "right" way to do it, but sometimes it does work.
- taude 14y agoYeup. Lots of arm-chair advice these days. It's a business all in itself. It's funny watching people compile lists of "all the mistakes" in hopes that not repeating a single one of them will equal success. Plenty of wildly successful businesses became so without having MVPs or setting up fake landing pages. They spent years building out real product-breakthroughs, maybe with even real technology/science. I'm willing to bet that for every rule that's broken in that StartUpGrave twitter list above (I haven't looked so I don't know what's really there, but I'm going on just the idea of compiling lists of mistakes), there's a company who succeeded while still failing the rule. There's so much retro-active quarterbacking that goes on (especially in the VC-world) that says X company was success because they applied this-thing-I'm-just-now-naming as a rule. Even though, Apple has taught us things like you're users don't always know what they want or need.