Fail Fast

August 17th, 2012

Evan Williams on “failing fast”:

I worry about the mantra of “fail fast.” I think there’s too much churn through ideas by entrepreneurs who are just looking for a hit instead of following a vision or trying to solve an important problem they’re passionate about. It’s good to fail fast on approaches or implementation but solving hard problems and creating really revolutionary things takes a long time, and they’re usually rejected by the market at first.

Interesting point. Distinguish between the failure of an implementation and the failure of the vision itself.