[boxy310]

I found it simply fascinating when I learned that Blue Wildebeests are born knowing how to stand within minutes of their birth, and within a day can outrun adult hyenas:

"Extremely precocial species are called "superprecocial". Examples are the Megapode birds, which have full flight feathers and which, in some species, can fly on the same day they hatch from their eggs. Another example is the Blue Wildebeest, whose calves can stand within an average of six minutes from birth and walk within thirty minutes; they can outrun a hyena within a day."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precocial

[raphael_l]

Very interesting concept, thanks for providing this link!

We could also apply this terminology to startups: precocial startups are profitable and self-sustaining soon after their launch. Superprecocial startups would be so right away.

[peterwwillis]

Aside from drug dealers there are few superprecocial businesses. The only reliable way to form such a business is to provide something everyone needs and nobody has, like water in the desert.