Countdown to Millions

"We Love Business, LOL!" Not one of Daft Punk's more memorable tracks.

If Daft Punk ran the business world, we would all have four choices when it can to how services were rendered: Harder, Better, Faster, or Stronger.  Those damn French robots are such over-achievers like that.  However, in the real (Non-robotic) world of business, it has often been said that there are only three choices, good, cheap, and fast; the challenge being that you can only ever choose two.

If you choose good and cheap, you won’t get what you’re looking for quickly.  If you want good and fast, it most certainly won’t be cheap.  Finally, if you choose cheap and fast, you can bet yourself that it won’t be good.  So, which do I want to choose for my countdown to millions?

Well, it doesn’t take too much figuring to realize that with a self-imposed time limit, one of my choices has to be fast, but do I want that speed to be at the expense of quality or cost-effectiveness?  It’s not as simple a decision as you might think.

Business isn’t so much about quality as it is about marketing.  Think of all the horrible products that your friends (or even you) buy on a regular basis, from companies who sell nothing but horrble products (*cough* Dell *cough*).  Those companies tend to be doing pretty well for themselves if they can manage to get their foot in the door and market the hell out of themselves.  But is that what I want for my business(es) and product(s)?  No.

I’m a classical perfectionist (Which I think means I enjoy listening to good performances of Beethoven’s symphonies), and to release something that I know isn’t my best might sell, but I would never feel quite right about it, always feeling like I sold out.  So in the end, in my Countdown to Millions looks like I’m going to have to do this thing Good and Fast…let’s just hope I find the money to support that choice.

So, if you wanted to make millions, which two would you choose?

-Nick