http://blog.maxdunn.com/articles/2008/02/12/ready-fire-aim en-us 40 Max Dunn's Personal Blog <p>I was having breakfast with my friend Bill Hyatt the other day, and we were talking about how important it is for startup businesses to have a very narrow focus, but also to be flexible about new opportunities. Bill called this &#8220;Ready, Fire, Aim&#8221;, which I found amusing.</p> <p>However, this reminded me of the first business I started, Micro System Designs. I started this business with the idea that it would be cool to write software to backup a hard drive onto floppy disks using a disk auto-loader, because it was such a pain to have to keep changing the disks by hand when backing up a hard drive. I developed the software and got a little bit of interest, so then I needed to duplicate the disks. At that time, the duplication software that worked with an auto-loader cost around $500 and there was no way that I was paying that, so I wrote a duplication program myself.</p> <p>It then turned out that my backup program wasn&#8217;t doing very well, but there was a lot of interest in my duplication program. Voila! I changed directions and had a successful business.</p> <p>So I do believe that a startup should have a very narrow focus but be willing to change it when a better opportunity presents itself &#8211; just like Ready, Fire, Aim.</p> Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:35:00 -0800 urn:uuid:f1a9bf93-f50d-4143-a03c-b79c0b7a7e53 Max Dunn http://blog.maxdunn.com/articles/2008/02/12/ready-fire-aim Random Thoughts <p>You should push through with this. Im sure techies like me love the idea. This would also ease backing up files much more and making them quite secure.</p> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:03:44 -0800 urn:uuid:043a5375-c787-4503-9714-a4efa314939e http://blog.maxdunn.com/articles/2008/02/12/ready-fire-aim#comment-511