“Products a start-up builds are really experiments…Learning about how to build a sustainable business is the outcome of those experiments [which follow] a three-step process: Build, measure, learn.” “[A startup is] … an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.” ThreeProcessStepsConditionsProductsCreatingOrganizationExtremesExperimentsUncertaintyOutcomesSomething NewDedicatedCreating Something Author:Eric Ries
“My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen it modelled. We lurched from relationship to relationship, dazzled by the newness of meaninglessness, relentless in our search for something even the most perceptive of us could not identify.” IfsSocialGenerationsEffectsProductsExperimentsIntimacyRelentlessMy GenerationNewnessMeaninglessness Author:Antonella Gambotto-Burke
“Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.” DifferentProductsExperimentsEmployeeControlledUnpredictableSusceptible Author:Margaret Heffernan
“From a writing standpoint, maybe television is a little more satisfying because it's not all hinging on one thing. You can experiment, week to week, and you can be a little narrower in your scope one week, and then be a little broader the next week. But with film, everything can look the way you want it to look. You can really sculpt the final product. So from a directorial standpoint, film is more satisfying. But, they're both forms of media that I'd like to keep involvement in.” WayWantWritingLooksLittlesFilmFormNextOne ThingWeekMediaTelevisionProductsFinalsExperimentsSatisfyingScopeInvolvementStandpointNext Week Author:Seth MacFarlane
“The whole art of making experiments in chemistry is founded on the principle: we must always suppose an exact equality or equation between the principles of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis.” ArtWholeBodyPrinciplesProductsEqualityExperimentsAnalysisChemistryEquations Author:Antoine Lavoisier
“Although it is easier to find information these days, it is easier than ever before to find misinformation, pseudo-facts, unsupported and fringe opinions, and the like. Children should be taught at an early age what constitutes evidence, how to detect biases or distortions in newspaper accounts, and that there exist hierarchies of information sources. In the medical field, for example, a controlled experiment published in a peer-reviewed journal is a better source than a blog by the Ginseng Growers Association, promoting the health benefits of their own product.” ShouldChildrenFactsAgeOpinionInformationExampleFieldsTaughtProductsSourceEasierBenefitsEvidenceAccountsMedicalNewspapersExperimentsThese DaysControlledAssociationPeersJournalHierarchyPromotingFringeBlogsDistortionMisinformationPseudoHealth Benefits Author:Daniel Levitin
“It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.” HumansEndsHuman BeingsProductsWasteExperimentsBurning Author:Christopher Hitchens
“The Bible is really not a religious book but a divine manual written by the manufacturer of humanity by which the product man is supposed to live. If we learn those principles and obey them, then we find that the process of failure to success becomes more inevitability than experiment.” IfsMenBookHumanityProcessReligiousPrinciplesWrittenDivineHe ManProductsExperimentsManualsInevitabilitySuccess FailureReligious Books Author:Myles Munroe
“Your doubts are not the product of accurate thinking, but habitual thinking. Years ago you excepted flawed conclusions as correct, begin to live your life as if those warped ideas about your potential were true, and ceased the bold experiment in living that brought you many breakthrough behaviors as a child.” IfsThinkingYearsChildrenIdeasDoubtProductsBehaviorYears AgoExperimentsConclusionAccurateLive Your LifeFlawedBreakthroughHabitual Book:You2: a high-velocity formula for multiplying your personal effectiveness in quantum leaps Source: You2: a high-velocity formula for multiplying your personal effectiveness in quantum leaps
“We Experiment Endlessly, With New Products, New Methods, New Companies And New Marketing. A Successful Business The Emphasis Is On Experiment And Development, Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business.” IdeasCompanySuccessfulProductsDevelopmentMethodMarketingExperimentsEmphasisSuccessful BusinessNew ProductsNew Company Author:Richard Branson
“If you paint for product, you have to follow the rules that keep you on the track of your expectation. You have to calculate, organize, plan every move. When you paint for process, you listen to the magic of inner voices, you follow the basic human urge to experiment with the new, the unknown, the mysterious, the hidden. Process is adventure; product happens only within the parameters designed.” IfsHumansHappensMovingProcessVoicePlansMagicAdventureProductsExpectationsPaintTrackExperimentsMysteriousUrgesOrganizeInner VoiceParameters Author:Michele Cassou
“On the one hand, I loved being a banker. I loved how numbers could tell a story and how you can invest in ideas and see them translate into products and services and create jobs. What I didn't like, particularly where I was working in Brazil during the debt crisis of the early '80s, was how the poor were excluded from the banking system. I made the decision to try and experiment with whether we could use the tools of banking to extend the benefits of the economy to the poor.” TryingMadeIdeasStoriesUseHandsJobsDecisionPoorNumbersEconomyProductsBenefitsToolsCrisisDebtExperimentsTranslate80sBankingBankersBrazilExcludedBanking SystemDebt Crisis Author:Jacqueline Novogratz