Quotes About Innovation

More than 100K active users OR serial founder(s) with past exits OR more than 10K paying customers. Whenever possible, I want to pour gasoline on the fire, not start the fire.

Never let a good crisis go to waste. It's the universe challenging you to learn something new and rise to the next level of your potential." Kristen Ulmer

Last but not least, much of what I recommend will seem impossible and even offensive to basic common sense—I expect that. Resolve now to test the concepts as an exercise in lateral thinking. If you try it, you'll see just how deep the rabbit hole goes, and you won't ever go back.

To become "successful," you have to say "yes" to a lot of experiments. To learn what you're best at, or what you're most passionate about, you have to throw a lot against the wall.

Productivity is for robots. What humans are going to be really good at is asking questions, being creative, and experiences.

That's not a bug. It's a feature!

El hombre razonable se adapta al mundo; el irrazonable persiste en intentar adaptar el mundo a él. Por consiguiente, todo progreso depende del hombre irrazonable.»

PARTING ADVICE? "What I would really like is for those of you who have been told that you're learning disabled, or you're not good at math, or that you're terrible at music, or something like that, to seek out unconventional ways of proving that wrong. Believe not only in yourselves, but that there are [ways, tools, methods] powerful enough to make things that look very difficult much easier than you ever imagined.

Most of your startups will fail, so the successes need to make up for losses.

No aceptes las normas de tu tiempo

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems . . . there's no law of physics preventing them." –Michio Kaku Physicist and co-founder of string field theory

No idea is so big that you can't take the first step. If the first step seems too hard, make it simpler. And don't worry again if the idea is bad. This is all practice.

book Culinary Artistry, Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page provide

great creative work isn't possible if you're trying to piece together 30 minutes here and 45 minutes there. Large, uninterrupted blocks of time—3 to 5 hours minimum—create the space needed to find and connect the dots. And one block per week isn't enough. There has to be enough slack in the system for multi-day, CPU-intensive synthesis.

we often forget that industries are often transformed by neophytes. The boldest transformations, like Uber disrupting transportation or Airbnb disrupting hospitality, are led by outsiders.

Where can you create a "red team" in your life to stress-test your most treasured beliefs?

Franklin would never have been published if he'd prioritized credit over creative expression—

Riesgos y beneficios asimétricos:

When you make a business, you're making a little world where you control the laws. It doesn't matter how things are done everywhere else. In your little world, you can make it like it should be.

Or Dick Fosbury, who went backwards over the high jump bar for the first time in the Olympics, winning gold —" ERIC: "1968, you got it." TIM: "Ridiculed, then mimicked, and eventually made standard.

Most people go through life and never develop strong views on things, or specifically go along and buy into the consensus. One of the things I think you want to look for as both a founder and as an investor is things that are out of consensus, something very much opposed to the conventional wisdom. . . . Then, if you're going to start a company around

Do not work harder when the solution is working smarter. I

Occasionally, a good idea comes to you first, if you're lucky. Usually, it only comes after a lot of bad ideas.

I'm old-fashioned. Where I come from, people like to succeed. . . . When I was a founder, when I first started out, we didn't have the word 'pivot.' We didn't have a fancy word for it. We just called it a fuck-up.