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# daily blog-20190722-true and actionable
###### tags: `daily blog` `startups` `elon musk` 

Dependencies and timing. It is said that being early is indistinguishable from being wrong. That is true but not helpful, because it is not actionable. 

Instead ask **why** you are too early? Why is missing from your product? What is the absolute minimum thing needed to get 10 more people to buy your product? Once you identify this, what is needed to make that thing happen and is it within your power to grant it? When you identify something that is true and actionable, you can pivot, other

For Netflix this was faster internet and it was not within their power to grant. So they trod water and pursued an alternate business dvds-by-mail to give them cashflows while they worked on their killer app, streaming. 

Elon Musk is a more extreme example with Space X. Getting to Mars required lower cost flights, which required reusable rockets. So they directed the company towards solving this problem. 

