Mar 18, 2014

The Immediate Response Fallacy

Why a lot of startup experiments mislead us into believing customers don’t care.

Some things take time to brew.

A good experimenter knows that, and doesn’t draw false conclusions when there are no immediate results.

A few examples
Two years ago, I created Tweetable Text, a simple Wordpress plugin that makes individual sentences in your blog post tweetable. The vision was a better way for good ideas to spread, and the minimum success criteria was a handful of installs in a few weeks. I got none, so I moved on.

Recently I googled for it, and found that it had lived on unbeknownst to me.

Read the full post on Medium.

Books & collected practices

  • Peer Learning Is - a broad look at peer learning around the world, with a focus on practical program design
  • Mentor Impact - researched the practices used by the startup mentors that really make a difference
  • Decision Hacks - early-stage startup decisions distilled
  • Source Institute - open peer learning formats and ops guides, and our internal guide on decentralised teams