Fail fast = quit and give up easy = spaghetti against the wall = no clear strategy going into your business = no ability / willingness to try and pivot as market conditions change = easy way out = today’s management mantra that will be laughed at in 10 years.  Who 8220;So you think it’s better to plan and build for years without testing it on the market and then make a big splash release and hope for the best?” Yesterday I wrote a post about how much capital your startup should raise .  In In that post I was talking about how it is a bad strategy to be underfunded.  In

Or worse, that every potential customer should want it. In the real world not every customer is going to get overly excited about your minimum feature set. Only a special subset of customers will and what gets them breathing heavy is the long-term vision for your product. The reality is that the minimum feature set is 1) a tactic to reduce wasted engineering hours (code left on the floor) and 2) to get the product in the hands of early visionary customers as soon as possible. You’re selling the vision and Steve Blank wrote a great post recently entitled Perfection By Subtraction – The Minimum Feature Set where he explains the real goals around defining a minimum viable product: Founders act like the “minimum” part is the goal.

I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice . Define your customers, partners and other relevant people to your organization (e.g. That’s blogging to the echo chamber unless they’re your target customers.  And and it’s where I got my custom URL’s grp.vc I recently wrote a piece for Mashable on how to create a company blog .  Since