Startups Quotes

Building a product is easy. But building the company that builds the product is hard.

The main question you have to answer for the business model is: “What will customers actually pay me for?”

Existing companies execute business models, while startups search for a business model.

80% of the companies believe they provide superior services, only 8% of customers agree.

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

[Analysts] need to work out, "What are we contributing to the business? Are we seeing things through and making sure that what we are doing is worth something?"

The people who successfully start independent businesses (franchises, I think are a different thing) do it because we have no real choice in the matter. The voice in our heads won't shut up until we discover if we're right, if we can do it, if we can make something happen. This is an art, our art, and to leave it bottled up is a crime.

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.

Based on the premise that start-ups tend to fail through lack of customers rather than lack of technology or product features, customer development is a systematic way of identifying who the customer is, what it is they need and whether that need is sufficient to build a business on.

Finish every conversation with, "What can I do to help you?"

The internet smashes gatekeepers, democratizes markets and brings a greater degree of control to people's lives. Strive to empower.

The web is a social movement and I like to think of a new company as a manifesto.

As long as you keep doing the right thing and have the best product, you can beat the bigger company.

Document everything. People are voracious for the products of productive people.

I usually start with where there is already traction. That’s where lots of companies go wrong. Lots of companies try to make you like the thing they want you to like because they want to sell more of that, as opposed to selling more of the thing they’re selling really well.

Do not tell me, "You know what you should do..." Instead ask me, "Is there any reason why I should not?"

I want my films to make money, but money is just fuel for the rocket. What I really want to do is to go somewhere. I don’t want to just collect more fuel.

Quality is the best business plan.

We never thought of it as customer service. We just treat people how we want to be treated.