Launching Startups and Products at the Speed of Speedy Gonzales, Bugs Bunny and Road Runner

When I was a kid growing up in Yugoslavia, we only had two TV channels. That’s right — only two! Every night, the news would come on at 8:00, and I dreaded that because I knew the 10 minutes of cartoons they showed before the news were over. Of course, the cartoons were from America, which is ironic since Yugoslavia was a communist country back then.

I loved watching Bugs Bunny, Roadrunner and Speedy Gonzales. I love those animated characters because they all have one thing in common: they use...