“Startups that succeed are those that manage to iterate enough times before running out of resources,” says Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup. Working hard to make that first version of your product the best, most scalable, most reusable, most elegantly built thing is likely wasted effort. Worse, it actually slows your progress toward putting something in front of customers that you can learn from and then change based on their feedback.
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Once you have hit on a success, then it makes sense to go back and rebuild to the quality and scale required. So a focus on quality depends on whether you are experimenting with something new to the world or trying to one-up the competition in an established category. Where are you?
Paris and Madrid
I'll be speaking at the awesome conference La Product Conf: May 24 in Paris on “Stakeholder Management: The Most Important Skill Nobody Teaches;” and May 26 in Madrid on “Roadmaps are Dead! Long live Roadmaps!” Coming? Ping me.