Parashat Metzora

Metzora (מְּצֹרָע — Hebrew for “One being diseased”)

This is Hillel Fuld’s  #Snapchatorah for Parashat Metzora.

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Purity and impurity aka making mistakes and rectifying them

The lesson in this portion are quite simple. The whole portion talks about purity and impurity. So what can we learn as entrepreneurs, listen up.

So the Torah teaches us there are many ways to become impure, but then it talks about how to rectify, how to fix it, how to become pure again. The lesson: it’s never too late to fix any mistake in your startup “No mistakes are irreversible.”

Think about it logically. You make a mistake, why should you be able to fix it? Move on, but you can’t fix it right? You already made the mistake, so no the Torah teaches us just the opposite, you can always fix your mistakes.

Execute, Iterate! Be Flexible!! 

You took money from the wrong investor, your cap table doesn’t look good, you went out to market with the wrong message, you positioned yourself incorrectly, you went after the wrong partnerships, you went after the wrong customers … PIVOT.

It is never too late!

Oh trust me I know, I’m dealing with this right now at Zula we pivoted to Zcast and techcrunch actually wrote an Article and said “Let’s hope they are luckier this time around. Odeo anyone?” Everyone can be cynical, everyone can criticize. You can iterate.

A good entrepreneur is a flexible entrepreneur

In fact, any good entrepreneur has to have the flexibility to iterate. I mean look at Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, look at Google. Google’s killing off more products then they keep. You got to have that flexibility.

Some one very smart once told me “Investment is creativity’s biggest enemy.” Because you invest time in something and get stuck in your ways and you are not creative enough to shift when the market says its time to shift.

So no the Torah teaches is it ain’t over until the fat lady sings. And even if you think your startup is on the way down and it’s about to crash. You can always save it. And again trust me, I know

Every situation can be fixed. Never too late!

Hillel is a Co-Founder at ZCastApp, mentor at Google, Microsoft, and many other accelerators across Israel. Add Hillel on Snapchat and Twitter