“The thing about startups is you can make it, and if it's wrong you can remake it, and you can build a team that you want to have, a product that you want to have. You're utterly focused on your users or your customers and their needs, and trying to figure out how to meet those needs.” IfsWantNeedsTryingTeamFiguresProductsCustomersFocusedUsersRemakes Author:John Katzman
“So my advice to startups in this particular category is if you’re going to put your product in beta - put your business model in beta with it. Far too often we are too product focused and not business-model focused. That’s one thing I definitely would have done differently with JotSpot.” IfsDoneOne ThingAdviceParticularProductsModelsFocusedCategoriesBusiness ModelsBeta Author:Joe Kraus
“If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.” IfsFeelsFirstsLooksMadeGrowsCompanyDesignProductsFocusedFeaturesFeel BetterSonyIndustrial DesignSamsung Author:Jefferson Han
“Steve Jobs just made a product. He started off where a lot of people were skeptical of what he was doing, and he basically just focused on the product and making it the best he could, and really focused on what it was that these products would take into your lives.” PeopleMadeJobsProductsFocusedSkeptical Author:Joshua Michael Stern
“While we have put an utmost emphasis on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) as a barometer for the overall economy until now, we have not paid much attention in detecting a level of social welfare. We, as a member of the society, must now take steps to create an index to indicate other critical elements to be focused on in order to restore reliability of world statistics.” WorldOrderSocialLevelsAttentionStepsEconomyProductsMembersElementsPaidCriticalFocusedWelfareStatisticsEmphasisGrossGdpReliabilityBarometerSocial WelfareGross Domestic Product Author:Jose Angel Gurria
“Even under Apple founder Steve Jobs, the company did emphasize values. Remember the Think Different ad campaign that used pictures of the Dalai Lama, Amelia Earhart, Mahatma Gandhi? But Jobs focused on the integrity of Apple's products.” ThinkingDifferentJobsRememberUsedValuesCompanyProductsIntegrityFocusedCampaignsApplesAdsFoundersLamaAmeliaDalaiThink Different Author:Laura Sydell