How would you know if your start up is just ’reinventing the wheel"? Should you just stop or just keep going?
26th July 2013
My answer to How would you know if your start up is just ’reinventing the wheel"? Should you just stop or just keep going? on Quora
If you have enthusiastic users (or paying customers) then it doesn’t matter if you are “reinventing the wheel” or not.
If you don’t have either of those, no matter how original your product is, you have a problem.
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