Impatience

We live in an instant world. Clik - post - click like. Click - buy - delivered today. Click, click click. This has certainly had a big social impact, especially on the young generations who just don't understand the concept of waiting. And very often not just passive, but active waiting - or - should we call it - developing.

Our teams at Silvair have been analyzing market adoption of delivered product features. And the conclusion has been that most of the features have been failures. The real reason - they measured the adoption too close to release dates. Simply not giving the market a chance. While in the current state of product maturity, there are no things urgently and immediately needed. The world keeps going on, there is inertia in discovery and learning.

As an example I must admit, despite passkeys being one of the most important internet development of 2023, I am yet to update my accounts to use them. Inertia. And laziness. And passwords just work.

Kimon and Richard keep rolling a new series of the Entrepreneurship & Leadership Podcast. And on the last episode they discuss the aspects of patience in business development. No, 6 months in never enough to land a major sales contract. This takes years and entrepreneurs must just be prepared for that.

Creating a company is never a blitzkrieg. Perhaps apart from a few publicized and romanticized stories. Typically it is a long tedious uphill journey and being well prepared (mentally) for it being long plays the crucial role in being able to survive (and then thrive...).

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