Archive for May, 2010
Jack Dorsey on Drawing Ideas, Recognizing Luck, Iterating Product, and Knowing to Stop
This is a fascinating talk by Jack Dorsey, Co-founder of Twitter and Square talks about his four core takeaways from his experiences building and launching Twitter and Square. A must watch video of 16 minutes. Completely worth it if you are someone who gets lots of ideas and want to build companies around them. These are the essential steps that you would follow to achieve that -
- Draw your ideas: Get your idea out of your head by drawing it and share it with people around it.
- Recognize the luck is happening around you: Assess when the time (and the market) is right to execute your idea.
- Iterate your product: Take in the feedback, be a rigorous editor, and refine your idea.
- Know when to stop: Realize if your idea is working or not. If not, then stop and put it away, and move on.
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