“You can’t just look at sales orders. You have to look at how you measure excitement.” — Fab.com and the Value of Online Word of Mouth - NYTimes.com (via betashop)
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Real-Life Tony Stark Turns His Broken Down Car Into a Motorcycle To Escape the Desert
“If you ever have a release with nothing left on your list of features to fast follow with, you shipped too late.” — @noah_weiss
Bijan Sabet: When the heart overrules the mind -
There is often a lot of “heat” around a company that is growing very fast. There is most likely a lot of growing pain that comes with hyper-growth but generally that is a high class problem (assuming the growth is authentic).
Founders, employees, investors and press will look at the metrics and…
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“Companies die from not being eaten by their competitors, but from self-inflicted wounds. They don’t have discipline. Their best people get frustrated. They chase all these shiny objects that aren’t core to the business. They become complacent because of early success.” —
Drew Houston, Dropbox (via sequoiacapital)
I put this quote on a slide at today’s foursquare company meeting. This is the last thing any startup founder wants to be associated with. And I feel that being self-aware, honest and transparent as a company, with everyone in the company - and letting that fuel an open dialog about what is and is not working within the company - is the best way to avoid this fate.
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Where's My Billion Dollar Check, I Wonder - AVC -
“So if you are doing the startup game for money, and lots of it, you are in for a plate full of frustration. It must be for more than that. It must be for the love of the game, a passion for what you are bringing to market, and for the chance that you will hit paydirt.”
What Your Klout Score Really Means -
Jives nicely with the “fashion is never finished” quote from the Facebook movie (which I always found to be an insightful / accurate analogy for “product” mindset)There is no finish line. So love the journey.
- David Weekly
Catch David Weekly at Echelon 2012 (11 &12 June)!
This Startup Quote is a joint collaboration between Startup Quote & e27.
it was fun talking about The Academy For Software Engineering today with the Mayor and Chancellor Walcott