Comments on: Fast Vs Careful Decision Making in Startups http://startup-marketing.com/a-scientific-approach-to-fast-decision-making/ Unlocking Startup Growth Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:16:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lean Start-up Part IV « Market By Numbers – Brant Cooper http://startup-marketing.com/a-scientific-approach-to-fast-decision-making/comment-page-1/#comment-1083 Lean Start-up Part IV « Market By Numbers – Brant Cooper Thu, 14 May 2009 18:31:10 +0000 http://startup-marketing.com/?p=361#comment-1083 [...] Decision-making is often based on fear.  Fear of making the wrong decision leads to making no decision at all.  This is a death knell.  There’s an old sales adage that says the worst answer a customer can give is maybe.  When facing decisions, the worst action is not making a decision.  More on decision-making here. [...] [...] Decision-making is often based on fear.  Fear of making the wrong decision leads to making no decision at all.  This is a death knell.  There’s an old sales adage that says the worst answer a customer can give is maybe.  When facing decisions, the worst action is not making a decision.  More on decision-making here. [...]

]]> By: Sean http://startup-marketing.com/a-scientific-approach-to-fast-decision-making/comment-page-1/#comment-828 Sean Wed, 06 May 2009 01:52:37 +0000 http://startup-marketing.com/?p=361#comment-828 Thanks Carmen. There are lots of people working together to save startups from some pretty obvious mistakes. We appreciate your help getting the word out. Seems like more and more people are "getting it" these days. Thanks Carmen. There are lots of people working together to save startups from some pretty obvious mistakes. We appreciate your help getting the word out. Seems like more and more people are “getting it” these days.

]]> By: Carmen Hughes http://startup-marketing.com/a-scientific-approach-to-fast-decision-making/comment-page-1/#comment-826 Carmen Hughes Wed, 06 May 2009 01:43:32 +0000 http://startup-marketing.com/?p=361#comment-826 hi Sean, i love all your posts! This one is great and i'll be referring my clients to read Steve's book and pushing them to zero in on the early users and then really get under the hood to understand their motivations. I wish more startups applied this approach instead of winging it. :) hi Sean,
i love all your posts! This one is great and i’ll be referring my clients to read Steve’s book and pushing them to zero in on the early users and then really get under the hood to understand their motivations. I wish more startups applied this approach instead of winging it. :)

]]> By: Steven Sonsino http://startup-marketing.com/a-scientific-approach-to-fast-decision-making/comment-page-1/#comment-759 Steven Sonsino Sun, 03 May 2009 07:18:17 +0000 http://startup-marketing.com/?p=361#comment-759 Hi Sean, love this post. Extending this idea on the quality of our decisions, a colleague suggests that we need to value our decisions as much as - if not MORE than - the results themselves. I began to 'get' this counter intuitive theme when he reminded me that some folks are just darn lucky/unlucky. Well worth a listen to this podcast interview from my colleague Zeger Degraeve at London Business School http://bit.ly/upu2N Hi Sean, love this post. Extending this idea on the quality of our decisions, a colleague suggests that we need to value our decisions as much as – if not MORE than – the results themselves.

I began to ‘get’ this counter intuitive theme when he reminded me that some folks are just darn lucky/unlucky.

Well worth a listen to this podcast interview from my colleague Zeger Degraeve at London Business School

http://bit.ly/upu2N

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