Quotes About Innovation

our current educational system was designed in the era of mass production and uses large batches extensively.

Potbelly Sandwich Shop, which today has over two hundred stores. It began as an antique store in 1977;

Mark explained, "Traditionally, the product manager says, 'I just want this.' In response, the engineer says, 'I'm going to build it.' Instead, I try to push my team to first answer four questions: Do consumers recognize that they have the problem you are trying to solve? If there was a solution, would they buy it? Would they buy it from us? Can we build a solution for that problem?

In the Lean Startup model, every product, every feature, every marketing campaign—everything a startup does—is understood to be an experiment designed to achieve validated learning.

BUILD-MEASURE-LEARN FEEDBACK LOOP

first, use a minimum viable product to establish real data on where the company is right now. Without a clear-eyed picture of your current status—no matter how far from the goal you may be—you cannot begin to track your progress.

The growth is all coming from an engine of growth that is working—running efficiently to bring in new customers—not from improvements driven by product development.

The grim reality is that most startups fail. Most new products are not successful. Most new ventures do not live up to their potential.

book Lean Thinking, James Womack and Daniel Jones recount

we figure out what we need to learn, use innovation accounting to figure out what we need to measure to know if we are gaining validated learning, and then figure out what product we need to build to run that experiment and get that measurement.

selling the product to visionary early customers called early adopters. Before new products can be sold successfully to the mass market, they have to be sold to early adopters. These people are a special breed of customer. They accept—in fact prefer—an 80 percent solution; you don't need a perfect solution to capture their interest.4

In fact, I believe a company's only sustainable path to long-term economic growth is to build an "innovation factory" that uses Lean Startup techniques to create disruptive innovations on a continuous basis.

Sólo se puede crear algo sólido y resistente a largo plazo cuando se crean ecosistemas vivos de ideas y mecanismos para lograr que las mejores lleguen rápido al mercado.

Qué deberíamos producir y para quién?», «¿En qué mercados podríamos entrar y dominar?», «¿Cómo podríamos crear un valor duradero que no estuviera sujeto a la erosión por parte de la competencia?».[6]

Startups don't starve; they drown." There are always a zillion new ideas about how to make the product better floating around, but the hard truth is that most of those ideas make a difference only at the margins.

paradoxical Toyota proverb, "Stop production so that production never has to stop.

I don't follow the food trends.

when you were out of options, then you were using the wrong tactics? You had to bend the rules. Shift perspective—anything to find a way out of a hopeless situation.

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.

We're proving not only that we can do better software, but that joy is an asset.

It may well turn out that one of the most important effects of open source's success will be to teach us that play is the most economically efficient mode of creative work.

It's not all that important that you be able to originate brilliant ideas... The more important talent is to be able to recognize good ideas from other people.

Users are wonderful things to have, and not just because they demonstrate that you're serving a need, that you've done something right. Properly cultivated, they can become co-developers.