The hard lesson of being slow to ship

On the afternoon of February 14, 1876 a man named Elisha Gray filed a patent caveat for the technology that we now call the telephone. In his laboratory on the outskirts of Chicago Elisha Gray had been working for at least a year on his idea.

Unfortunately for Gray…

The morning of that very same day Alexander Graham Bell filed his patent for the telephone a couple hours prior to Grey. Unfortunately for Grey, the patent for the telephone ended up being the most valuable patent ever handed out by the U.S. patent office.

Start now!

• If you have a great idea—start now.
• If you have a vision—execute on it.
• If you have the opportunity now—don’t wait.

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