Dispatches from the Frontier
Musings on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Culling Weak Inventions
Musings on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Tuesday, July 18, 2006Culling Weak Inventions
Thank you George Campbell of keydesign for forwarding an email from David Tiller at the Small Business Administration about Doug Hougen, a prolific inventor and founder of Hougen Manufacturing. In it, Tiller sums up Hougen's philosophy:
A key to successful inventing is to get rid of the weak inventions as quickly as possible.
If only it were easy to know when we were putting good time and money after bad.
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