| YES YES YES!! More support for this! That said, be prolific and deep...try not to repeat yourself depending on what you're doing but go deeper... Aaron Levie of box.com I believe started 10 different websites and box.com was the one that took off. A friend of mine in Japan started 3 companies...and only 1 took off...initially all 3 looked equally promising. Imagine if he took 2 years per experiment and gave up after 2 of the 3. The hit rate of Beethoven between masterpiece and so-so piece was relatively steady in his middle and late periods. Often works that are pre-planned "masterpieces" slaved over fail to engage, while some things made quickly live forever...think of Leonardo's drawing the Vitruvian Man, a quick sketch that's one of the most famous drawings in the world vs. his destroyed or not-made (I forget) statue of a horse (it is being re-built by someone and the world is still not taking much notice). Google, Amazon, etc...how many failures do they have, if you look at that list they'd look like giant failures...remember Google Knol? The wikipedia killer. Or Amazon Fire Phone? Really embarrassing...do they care? Not at all! They simply don't care...but it's a little bit because despite a hundred failures, two of the more experimental things they did become $100 billion dollar businesses namely Android and AWS. |