Quotes About Iteration

128. Intentional Action Has a Few Simple Elements Determine who it's for. Learn what they believe, what they fear, and what they want. Be prepared to describe the change you seek to make. At least to yourself. Care enough to commit to making that change. Ship work that resonates with the people it's for. Once you know whom it's for and what it's for, watch and learn to determine whether your intervention succeeded. Repeat.

Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.

The great thing about theatre is that the performance develops over the run - it changes each time.

History repeats itself.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

Because Techstars is an intensely productive three-month program in which product development and iteration are primary goals, we're constantly looking to streamline our program to help entrepreneurs avoid recurring obstacles.

Prototyping is about doing small experiments at low cost, using what you have to hand.

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

The iterative cycle provides opportunities to convert weakness into strength by using the knowledge derived from failure to shorten the gap between practitioners and their goals.

The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model--whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.

What I would say is that in its first iteration, Extinction Rebellion is really about democracy, by calling in for these new democratic forms for people to have their power. And frankly, in many countries of the world, democracy is in just absolute shambles.

Thinking like an entrepreneur means establishing a core audience of early adopters and constantly experimenting to make your product better and better. If your initial concept is showing promise and early success, keep iterating to refine and evolve your idea.

What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in the same genre on another machine - and the titles that really take advantage of the machine come along later.

Toni Schneider used the term continuous deployment to describe the philosophy of endless small changes.

1. Break assignments into smaller pieces 2. If there is no progress, go to #1 and repeat.

I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

What's been tried once had been tried once before... and before... and before...

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time.

Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop is at the core of the Lean Startup model.

In the Lean Startup model, an experiment is more than just a theoretical inquiry; it is also a first product.

The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build—the thing customers want and will pay for—as quickly as possible.

the Lean Startup is a new way of looking at the development of innovative new products that emphasizes fast iteration and customer insight, a huge vision, and great ambition, all at the same time.

Startup, I have always been a bit of a troublemaker at the companies at which I have worked, pushing for rapid iteration, data-driven decision making, and early customer involvement.