Imitating some of the practices of established successful firm can help the entrepreneur develop the skills necessary to be successful in the industry, rather than attempting to work out which skills are required and develop these skills from scratch. This use of imitation allows the entrepreneur to quickly acquire the skill that will be rewarded by the industry without necessarily having to go through the process of first determining what those key success factors actually are. It is a mechanism that allows the entrepreneur to skip a step in the stages of solving a puzzle (or at least to delay the need, and the importance, of solving that particular step).