Comments on: agile company creation

By: sethlevine

sethlevine — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:07:04 +0000

outstanding joseph! thanks for the pointer to your site.

seth

By: Joseph Flahiff

Joseph Flahiff — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:50:18 +0000

Amen!
check out my site devoted to this very topic Agile Business Creation (ABC)

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By: Sasamat

Sasamat — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:10:23 +0000

Perhaps agile, as applied in software development and in business startups is just another incarnation of a high sample rate, high gain, negative feedback loop. This is the basis of all modern control theory but not often applied to personal or professional life. This is also they way that people become good at everything from golf to guitar (http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/21/magazines/fortune...

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:46:38 +0000

Checking and rechecking your assumptions it's great but taken to an extreme I can see a company pulling 180s on longterm strategy every month. Always question your assumptions, but having focus and follow-up help too

By: sethlevine

sethlevine — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:40:57 +0000

absolutely! your post is right on.

By: Ben Casnocha

Ben Casnocha — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:17:45 +0000

It's also a good analogy for how to live life in general: http://ben.casnocha.com/2007/01/new_life_philos.h...

By: Chase Barfield

Chase Barfield — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:38:31 +0000

That reminds me of one of my favorite phrases “If you are not as successful as you want to be, there is something that you do not know.” And the successful startups realize this. Hence the checking and rechecking of their assumptions.