All Jessica Livingston Quotes
- Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing Herd
- The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were. Easier
- Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality. Been
- People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it… Abstract
- Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on. Big
- Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle. Battle
- The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product. Better
- My skills weren't that I knew how to design a floppy disk, I knew how to design a printer interface, I knew how to design… All
- You've got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that you want to be at. Ahead
- Finding a programmer to work with if you don't already know one will be a challenge. Merely judging if a programmer is exceptional vs. competent… Already Know
- Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers. Any
- Lots of people were skeptical, but that's always true when you do something that hasn't been done before. Always True
- Cofounders will endure so much together that their relationship is often compared to a marriage. Cofounders
- People think startups grow out of some brilliant initial idea like a plant from a seed. But almost all the founders I interview change their… All