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The problem with starting a new project, company or endeavour, is that you won’t know if it’ll be successful (or in what way) until you actually try it. And by try it, I mean launch it. Publicly. Yikes!
It doesn’t matter if the past 10 ideas you launched did well. It doesn’t matter if you have the best advisors on the planet. It especially doesn’t matter if you use an existing model that someone else has used with a ton of success.
SWOT charts, surveys, experts, courses, and even past experience only go so far. Nothing in this world is predictable. (Sorry meteorologists and hedge fund managers!)
In business or entrepreneurialism especially, more luck and serendipity is required than anything else. So the only way to reduce the probability of loss is to try experimenting with new ideas as often and as publicly as possible.
This is the only common thread with successful entrepreneurs: they keep trying different ideas until one sticks.
They try until one of their ideas turns into a win. Maybe it will take 5 tries. Maybe 500. Maybe the 3rd idea will turn into a 2-million dollar company and the 4th idea will fall flat on its face.
The only difference between those who wish they could create great products or companies and those that do is the trying through hard work and then launching.
Ideas aren’t currency, since they aren’t worth anything by themselves. They’re simply the catalyst that propels you in a direction to actually make, invent or create something great.
So friend, success is not as difficult as we think. It’s mostly just a matter of hard work and launching to increase our chances at a lucky break. No tactics, tips or tricks required.
Let’s get down to work and roll the dice.
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This is a cross-post from Paul Jarvis.
Paul Jarvis is a is a web designer and author. His latest book, Everything I Know, is now available