Try Something New

An important part to being successful is to do something that nobody else has ever done.

Take the story of David and Goliath for example. David did not follow the rules of Goliath and fight with body armour and a sword. He tried something different and used a sling and stone. He implemented an idea that nobody has used before. This is what made him successful. 

Statistics show that in the history of mankind the underdogs have won 30% of the time, and out of the 30% who have won, 65% of these underdogs won by implementing a new strategy or method.

Sir Francis Bacon once said " If we are expected to achieve results never before accomplished, we should expect to employ methods never before used."

How to relate this into your business is that as a start-up you will always be the underdog if you are doing something everyone else is doing. There will always be someone who can do it better than you. This is why you should do something never done before. There is no competition when it comes to an idea nobody has every thought of before.