Starting a job board — just be crappy

Experience has taught me to launch first and fix later. Today Jason Calacanis’ blog has a great explanation for this strategy.

Guy Kawasaki joked
with me a decade ago that he was famous for doing nothing and for
saying obvious things. Self deprecation is always attractive to me, and
despite the fact that Guy really has never had a "hit," he’s picked up
some brilliant observations over his years as a self-described
undeserving pundit. The most powerful of which is his famous quip: "don’t worry be crappy."

Wikipedia
is the perfect example of a site which doesn’t worry about being
crappy, but rather its ability to evolve. They’ve let folks destroy
their accuracy and reputation in the hopes that the increased
interaction will be a net positive in the future… and it has. Of
course, BLPs (bios of living persons) wind up suffering in that
"crappy" state while the Wikipedia evolves, but that’s the price of a
freewheeling system: some pain, but a lot of gain.

And that’s why you will see this ‘crappy’ blog and all of our websites evolving little by little over time. Getting started is more important than starting with polish! And your pace of evolution is more important than your starting point. You can transform your life by attempting the impossible with the courage to
repeatedly fail better.

Speaking of starting points, here is a ten year old version of latpro.com and ancient logo: 

Ever tried. Ever failed. No
matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

-Samuel Beckett

If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly at first.

-unknown

Rules make the learner’s path long, examples make it short and successful.

-Seneca 

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