If you are involved in product creation you could take a lesson from rabbits and rats.
I know, I can just imagine you scratching your head as you wonder what furry creatures have to do with product creation. Both of these animals were designed to be productive when it comes to the number of offspring they can have.
For instance the rabbit can mate by three months of age. Their gestation period is slightly more than a month and they can have as many as 12 kits in each liter. They can also live up to twelve years of age. By the way if you were curious a rabbit is a lagomorph while the rat is a rodent.
A female rat can begin to reproduce as early as 35 days of age. These rodents can also have as many as 12 pups and multiple annual litters. Unlike the rabbit a rat will generally live just 2-3 years, but could have a few hundred offspring and preside over many generations of rats during that time.
So what can a lagomorph and a rodent teach us about product creation? Simply put these two creatures teach us that more may be better.
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