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How would you know if your start up is just ’reinventing the wheel"? Should you just stop or just keep going?

26th July 2013

My answer to How would you know if your start up is just ’reinventing the wheel"? Should you just stop or just keep going? on Quora

If you have enthusiastic users (or paying customers) then it doesn’t matter if you are “reinventing the wheel” or not.

If you don’t have either of those, no matter how original your product is, you have a problem.

Posted 26th July 2013 at 11:35 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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