#100Startup: Action Beats Planning

Last updated on: June 6, 2012 at 8:40 am by Steve Knight

#100Startup: Action Beats Planning 2012-06-05T00:50:53-03:00 Steve Knight

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“Get started quickly and see what happens. There’s nothing wrong with planning, but you can spend a lifetime making a plan that never turns into action. In the battle between planning and action, action wins. …

“A marketable idea doesn’t have to be a big, groundbreaking idea; it just has to provide a solution to a problem or be useful enough that other people are willing to pay for it. Don’t think innovation; think usefulness.”
—Chris Guillebeau, The $100 Startup

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