Quotes About Innovation

First Round has an opportunity: to create an entirely new kind of online publication, built for technology entrepreneurs, where they can learn how to build better companies.

I love marketing a lot, and I'm very creative when it comes to developing ideas for shows or publicity campaigns.

One of the effects Pixar University has on the culture is that it makes people less self-conscious about their work and gets them comfortable with being publicly reviewed.

I have always been interested - indeed, waylaid - by the leading edges of technology, even during my Ph.D. years when I pioneered (but did not publish) agarose gel electrophoresis for RNA fractionation. Also, much later, I was instrumental in showing that Green Fluorescent Protein and RNAi could be made to work in mammalian cells.

I learned from Linus Pauling it's not a disgrace in science to publish something that's wrong. What's bad is to publish something that's not very interesting.

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.

My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.

We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works.

It's a fascinating world to drop a finished product on the marketplace without the intercession of a publisher.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

Hugh Howey and Amanda Hocking come to mind immediately as authors who managed to build a successful following without the initial support of a large publisher.

Amazon makes money differently from a conventional publisher. It is an infrastructure player.

An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created.

When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.

For a major publisher like Time Inc. to embrace Bitcoin sends an important message to both its readers and to the broader media community.

When I realized that I can invest in my own marketing and do exactly what I think needs to be done - well, then it just feels like, what is the benefit of having a publisher?

Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits. So, if 'playing it safe' does not guarantee hits, they might as well leave it up to the really creative, risk-taking people, because they couldn't do any worse.

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

We knew when we started the Daily Muse, we wanted a recruiting-focused business model rather than an advertising-focused one. We felt like publishers were being forced to go to more and more extreme lengths to monetize through advertising.

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

Publishers should use the paperback side to leverage the ebook side.

Self-publishing has been a dubious challenge to traditional publishers, at best.

We tried to just convince big publishers like EA or other people to make games like 'Cloud'... It's just almost impossible.