Selling effectively is the most important factor, not speed. Speed is second as a factor (and obviously very important). That's actually what you're describing when you say success of a product is not correlated to how well it's engineered. It's correlated to how well you can sell what you have to the audience/customers you need. That's why some start-ups can even get jumpstarted without having a functional product via pre-product sign-ups and sales. Getting to selling as reasonably quickly as you can, in other words.
Go when you have something to sell. That's what the MVP is about.
Which also isn't the same as me saying that speed doesn't matter - it matters less than how well you sell. It's better to sell at a 10/10 skill level, and have your speed be 8/10, than vice versa (and that will rarely not be the case). Those are bound-together qualities as it pertains to success, so if you sell at 10/10 and your speed is 1/10, you're at a high risk of failure. Give on speed before you give on selling and don't give too much on either.
Selling effectively is the most important factor, not speed. Speed is second as a factor (and obviously very important). That's actually what you're describing when you say success of a product is not correlated to how well it's engineered. It's correlated to how well you can sell what you have to the audience/customers you need. That's why some start-ups can even get jumpstarted without having a functional product via pre-product sign-ups and sales. Getting to selling as reasonably quickly as you can, in other words.
Go when you have something to sell. That's what the MVP is about.
Which also isn't the same as me saying that speed doesn't matter - it matters less than how well you sell. It's better to sell at a 10/10 skill level, and have your speed be 8/10, than vice versa (and that will rarely not be the case). Those are bound-together qualities as it pertains to success, so if you sell at 10/10 and your speed is 1/10, you're at a high risk of failure. Give on speed before you give on selling and don't give too much on either.