On Scope Creep & ZIRP Lessons
A company can take a very narrow view of the future and not see threats or opportunities outside of its narrow focus. This narrow focus can help the company excel where it is concentrating, but its peripheral vision may be diminished; as a result, it doesn’t see the impact of a new technology with better potential, the possibility of a new industry
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Internet Scale Businesses
joincolossus.comSaying no is incredibly hard in the early stages of company building, and there's this saying that the power of great companies is those that say no to good ideas and say only yes to great ideas, and there's lots of great leaders that have talked about how constraints lead to really creative thinking, and so the idea that you're going to say no a l... See more
Chetan Puttagunta • Go Slow to Go Fast: Software Building and Investing
When the balance skews towards Compete , it is easy to lose sight of the big picture. The vision for the future devolves into questions like, "what if we had more users?" and "what if we just did more stuff?" This mindset drives products to become big, complex messes of features, leaving you wondering, "who asked for all this?" You end up wit
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