In this Masters of Scale podcast with Reid Hoffman, the iconoclastic Marc Andreessen shares his perspective on the 6 secrets of timing innovation successfully:

• Being too early can be as bad as being too late –the General Magic documentary is a great illustration of this.
• Ecosystem readiness is critical.
• History doesn’t always repeat itself – useful to learn from the past but don’t be deterred by it.
• Need to create a network that supports scaling.
• Look for good ideas that look like bad ones as the obviously good ideas will have been done.
• Be open minded as it’s easy to under-estimate how big something will become.