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Newton’s laws of motion for Startups!

April 18, 2008 | In: ApnaBill, Startups

A quick refresher on Newton’s laws of motion

  • “An object will stay at rest or continue at a constant velocity unless acted upon by an external unbalanced force”
  • “The net force on an object is equal to the mass of the object multiplied by its acceleration”
  • “Every action has an equal and opposite reaction”

Yesterday, I was pushing Sandy to fill up some forms when it suddenly hit me that it was actually all working exactly according to Newton’s laws of motion.

Dodge this!
An idea always remains an idea until someone (or a team) pushes himself to take the pains of getting it done. In other words, the object (the idea) would remain an idea until an external force (effort) is applied to it. Once the effort comes in, the idea starts taking a shape – steadily.

The amount of effort put in by all the team members combined, can give a fair idea bout the output. This output can be a deliverable or a beta release.

Force = Mass * Acceleration
is analogous to
Release = Team * Effort

But it is to be kept in mind all the time that this force (effort) is a vector quantity – ie., it has a directional sense attached to it. If all team members work together towards the same goal, the effort would be additive – otherwise subtractive.

No market is good enough for a business which does not has a competition. More the amount of existing competition, the better product/results a new team would plan to deliver.
Market forces would then determine which one goes on to live and which one perishes.

The similarity I found between the laws and the way we work at ApnaBill.com, made me sit up and write this blog post at 2 AM in the morning…. now thats some force ;)

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Mayank Jain (makuchaku)

August 5th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

More analogy to physics…
http://abhishekjain.in/?p=8

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