How to Fail Fast: 5 Signs That It’s Time To Move On
This post is Part 1 in a series.
If you work for a tech startup, you know that the smartest thing to do is “fail fast” - devise a hypothesis, figure out the quickest way to validate it, and, when it doesn’t work out, scrap it and learn from it to move on to the next, improved hypothesis.
“If you review your first site version and don’t feel embarrassment, you spent too much time on it.” – Reid Hoffman
“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti
Everyone loves to talk about “fail fast”, but how do you do it? Ideally, you started out with a specific metric or criteria to meet – but not everyone planned that well from the beginning (and some of us inherit others’ poorly-laid ‘plans’). How do you recover and move on from there?
How do you know that what you’ve got now isn’t working and isn’t salvageable? Here are 5 signs that it’s time to move on:

