Earlier this year, I read Malcolm Gladwell's book, Outliers, and it made me think about something I believe most start-ups always do -- compare themselves to outliers.
Generally, I come from the school of thought that you should always compare yourself to the best. It was one of the pieces of advice I received from my mentor when I was in college. However, should it apply to start-ups?
I find myself always comparing my start-up to companies that have made it huge and trying to follow in their footsteps. According to Gladwell's book on Outliers, most times, there are other reasons of why they became so successful. Reasons that are outside of your control like their culture, their generation, their friends, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.
Do you think this is a good tendency to have?
Sometimes I think you should just run your own race and stop comparing yourself to others.
What's your take?
Cheers,
Andre
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The funny thing is when you compare your company to another, you can only see the obvious things that make them successful, but not the less obvious. So you end up thinking "Google is successful because they don't use many images on their website"
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