Used at the wrong time or taken to an extreme, failing fast and failing cheap can result in significant destruction of value.
Category archives: Masters of Scale
Why Mark Zuckerberg Runs 10,000 Facebook Versions a Day
In a rare interview on the podcast ‘Masters of Scale,’ the Facebook CEO shares some unique tidbits, including his first social network ZuckNet, the importance of testing and how a computer game got his sisters to play with him.
Sometimes You Need to Let Go of a Bad Idea
When you go into business, especially with a new or unique idea, how do you know when to persist and when to change course?
‘It Will Never Work,’ They Said — But It Did
Naysayers shouldn’t stop you from forging ahead, especially if you have the the willpower as well as the research to prove them wrong.
4 Ways Tristan Walker’s Success Depended on Breaking from the Pack
In excerpts first on Entrepreneur from the Masters of Scale podcast series, the founder of Walker & Company shares when he went against the grain — and what we can learn from it.
The Last Laugh: Why Good Ideas Are Often Ridiculed at First
There are hundreds of businesses that, logically, sounded preposterous when they were first considered. The Pet Rock, anyone?
LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman: Laughable Ideas Are Sometimes the Best Ideas
In the new episode of ‘Masters of Scale,’ host Reid Hoffman chats with entrepreneurs Tristan Walker and Kathryn Minshew about using early rejection to build successful businesses.
To Raise or Not to Raise, That Is the Question
Weighing the pros and cons of pursuing investors.
It Always Takes More Time and Money Than You Think to Start a Business
It is the unanticipated items that cause most startups to take longer and cost more to reach breakeven.
Instead of Taking Millions More in Investor Money, Our 25-Person Company Chose to IPO
Why we made the strategic decision to pursue an IPO as a fundraising strategy.