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Ugly Baby
An early-stage idea or product that looks unpromising, embarrassing, or laughable on first encounter but contains the seed of real innovation, since polished, immediately-appealing ideas rarely represent genuine breakthroughs.
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… If so, like this is a great investment potentially great investment because it's an ugly baby. And ugly babies are the ones where there's real alpha.
… So basically that ended up buying us the time that we needed to get out of this, I don't know how you call it, the ugly baby phase.
Honestly, we had something dogfooding within two months, in the hands of the first lighthouse user within five months. We iterated on the alpha for maybe six months.
Concept
Ugly Baby
An early-stage idea or product that looks unpromising, embarrassing, or laughable on first encounter but contains the seed of real innovation, since polished, immediately-appealing ideas rarely represent genuine breakthroughs.
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… If so, like this is a great investment potentially great investment because it's an ugly baby. And ugly babies are the ones where there's real alpha.
… So basically that ended up buying us the time that we needed to get out of this, I don't know how you call it, the ugly baby phase.
Honestly, we had something dogfooding within two months, in the hands of the first lighthouse user within five months. We iterated on the alpha for maybe six months.