> “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times” – Bruce Lee I learned this process from Owen at the [Lean Startup Machine](https://startupstash.com/tools/lean-startup-machine/) back in 2012 You and I are VCs. Yup. You, too, are a real venture capitalist! Your capital just isn’t money but time. And just like money, our time is a limited resource. **Learn to repeatedly run experiments in parallel so that you have time left for that one “HELL YES!” after saying “NO.” ten times:** 1. Repeat the scientific method to get to “NO.” sooner and more often. 2. Paralellize at least 3 ventures to get really smart about your testing. **Keep it simple** [[⭐️ How To Make Better and Faster Investment-Decisions With Lean Experiments|I simply *repeated and parallelized* the “One Kick” with 52 experiments to weed out 11 of 12 ideas]] and be left with one 40X asset. Just start with the biggest risk and stop if the answer is “NO.” 1. Would I work on this in my free time? 2. What’s the growth-rate in this niche? 3. How much do I care for this specific customer? 4. What keeps them up at night specifically? 5. What are they doing to fix this themselves? 6. What does their ideal solution look like? 7. How much is that worth to them?