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Quotes About Startup Definition
“A startup is a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed,” ― Neil Blumenthal, cofounder and co-CEO of Warby Parker.
“A startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.” ― Eric Ries, Writer of the Lean Startup
“A company five years old can still be a startup,”
“You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible.”
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“Startups are business experiments performed with other people’s money.”
― Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley.
Quotes About Startups Purpose, Origin or Raison d’être
“The best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.”
― Michael Arrington, founder and former co-editor of TechCrunch
Quotes About Startups Culture and Operations
“Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining.”
― Michael Arrington, founder and former co-editor of TechCrunch
“Startup is a state of mind,” ― Adora Cheung, cofounder and CEO of Homejoy.
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
― Steve Jobs, Cofounder of Apple, founder of Pixar and Next ~ More Steve Jobs advice & quotes
Quotes About Product Development & Market fit
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
“You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology – not the other way around.”
“I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.”
― Steve Jobs, Cofounder of Apple, founder of Pixar and Next ~ More Steve Jobs advice & quotes
