Customer Quotes by Sarah Lacy

8 Customer quotes by Sarah Lacy

Sarah Lacy provides eight concise observations on the importance of listening to the customer. Her voice is both critical and encouraging for innovators.

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The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experience. It's excuses.

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One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow…

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You know what works in venture capital? A group of incredibly smart, connected people who have the financial wherewithal and risk appetite…

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The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experiences. It's excuses.

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The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.

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It may be easier than ever to start a product, but building a company is just as hard as its ever been.

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Dying venture firms are like the walking dead. They can have years of staggering around with stakes in still active portfolio companies,…

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The thought for a long time was that banks needed to be too controlled, too regulated to be turned over to the…

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Benefitting from a job bubble is not only a first world problem, it's an upper-class-educated-lucky-to-be-in-the-right-industry-at-the-right-time kind of first world problem.

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