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Early Stage Growth • Ballpoint

80% of experiments fail

Which is why you need to optimise for experimentation rate.

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Josh Lachkovic
Aug 02, 2023
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Almost all experiments fail. And that is a good thing.

Failed experiments are a gift. Why would you want to keep on doing something that doesn’t work? Think of the energy you personally put into various things. If they have no – or negative – impact, then learning that allows you to focus attention elsewhere.

And yet in experimentation processes, this fi…

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