Time Matters To Your Startup--But Not The Way You Think Today’s News Scrum Discussion: The Idea Maze by Chris Dixon “Competition from other startups is usually just a distraction. In all likelihood, they won’t take the same path, and the presence of others in your maze means you might be onto something. Your real competition – and what you should worry about – is the years you could waste going down the wrong path.” This observation gets at something which isn’t often discussed in technology--fear of duplication. In the outset of the article, Dixon says it’s hackneyed to claim that “ideas don’t matter” because ideas dictate what you execute on over the roadmap of your company. But one reason that “ideas don’t matter” has become axiomatic is that it’s nearly impossible for two developers (or two designers) put side-by-side with limited visibiltiy into each others’ projects to come out with the same exact thing--even if they are given the same resources and the same problem to solve. That’s because, as he says further on, “theories” are a big part of what drive software development: Read Full Story fastcolabs/3015287/time-matters-to-your-startup-but-not-the-way-you-think?partner=rss #Tech #Technology #News #Updates #Like #Follow #Comment
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 20:54:53 +0000
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