Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool to search for a business model.
Steve BlankMy advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn't matter if you're 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That's why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.
Steve BlankPeople talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. Iโm living proof that the โlucky breaksโ theory is simply wrong. You get to make your own luck... The world is run by those who show upโฆnot those who wait to be asked.
Steve Blank