Quotes About Innovation

Start a business, not a startup Ah

Don't mistake this approach for skimping on quality, either. You still want to make something great. This approach just recognizes that the best way to get there is through iterations. Stop imagining what's going to work. Find out for real.

No te has fijado que mientras que las empresas pequeñas quieren ser mayores, las grandes aspiran a ser más ágiles y flexibles?

Así que formúlate la pregunta: «¿Qué podemos lograr en dos semanas?» Y hazlo. Preséntalo y deja que la gente lo use, lo pruebe, juegue con ello o lo que sea. Cuanto antes llegue a manos de tus clientes, mejor te irá a ti.

When you build what you need, you can also assess the quality of what you make quickly and directly, instead of by proxy. Mary

If you absolutely have to work on long-term projects, try to dedicate one day a week (or every two weeks) to small victories that generate enthusiasm. Small victories let you celebrate and release good news. And you want a steady stream of good news. When there's something new to announce every two weeks, you energize your team and give your customers something to be excited about.

Look at Craigslist, which demolished the traditional classified-ad business. With just a few dozen employees, the company generates tens of millions in revenue, has one of the most popular sites on the Internet, and disrupted the entire newspaper business.

Start referring to your business plans as business guesses

The easiest, most straightforward way to create a great product or service is to make something you want to use. That lets you design what you know—and you'll figure out immediately whether or not what you're making is any good.

Creativity, progress, and impact do not yield to brute force.

If you're just going to be like everyone else, why are you even doing this?

When you just copy and paste, you miss that. You just repurpose the last layer instead of understanding all the layers underneath.

If you're successful, people will try to copy what you do. It's just a fact of life. But there's a great way to protect yourself from copycats: Make you part of your product or service. Inject what's unique about the way you think into what you sell. Decommoditize your product. Make it something no one else can offer.

If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse. —HENRY FORD

Evolution doesn't linger on past failures, it's always building upon what worked. So should you.

When good enough gets the job done, go for it. It's way better than wasting resources or, even worse, doing nothing because you can't afford the complex solution. And remember, you can usually turn good enough into great later.

Great companies start in garages all the time. Yours can too.

Make them see dollar signs where you see greater freedom, more

The longer it takes to develop, the less likely it is to launch. Make

Do less than your competitors to beat them. Solve the simple problems and leave the hairy, difficult, nasty problems to the competition. Instead of one-upping, try one-downing. Instead of outdoing, try underdoing.

Use this time to make mistakes without the whole world hearing about them. Keep tweaking. Work out the kinks. Test random ideas. Try new things. No one knows you, so it's no big deal if you mess up. Obscurity helps protect your ego and preserve your confidence.

Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea. And everyone's got one of those.

Best of all, this "solve your own problem" approach lets you fall in love with what you're making. You know the problem and the value of its solution intimately. There's no substitute for that. After all, you'll (hopefully) be working on this for years to come. Maybe even the rest of your life. It better be something you really care about.

Say no by default If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse. —HENRY FORD It