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My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn__ matter if you__e 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That__ why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.
Steven Gary Blank The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win
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My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn__ matter if you__e 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That__ why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.
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