Entrepreneurial Proverbs

Entrepreneurial Proverbs を流し読み。
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/entrepreneurial_proverbs.html

"Immediate yes is immediate no" とは、うまく言ったものだ。

Immediate yes is immediate no -- does everyone immediately tell you your idea is great? Run away from it. If the idea is that obvious, the market will be filled with competitors, and you'll find yourself scrambling. One good test: when the New York Times Magazine puts out its annual "Year in Ideas" issue, is your idea in it? Then don't do it. You're already too late.

会社を経営していると、このような話によく出くわす。
先日、Google に買収され話題になった Writely の話などは、まさにこれだと思う。

http://writely.blogspot.com/2006/03/google-yep-google.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/writely-so.html

The other night, I was talking to my husband about how nervous I was to be starting work there. Truth be told, we've all been pretty overwhelmed for the past few weeks. What could our little team possibly do that's innovative enough? And he said, "Hello? You already did it!" It's true -- everyone told us it was crazy to try and give people a way to access their documents from anywhere -- not to mention share documents instantly, or collaborate online within their browsers. But that's exactly what we did. And since we launched the Writely beta in August 2005, many thousands of people have registered, and all of them came through word of mouth (and blog).

今後、アイデアを評価するときに指針のひとつとしたい。