"People think startups grow out of some brilliant……" — Jessica Livingston
"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 ideas as they develop them."
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14 Quotes by Jessica Livingston
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Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing
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The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.
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Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.
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People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend…
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Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on.
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Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.
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The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.
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My skills weren't that I knew how to design a floppy disk, I knew how to design a printer interface,…
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You've got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that…
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Finding a programmer to work with if you don't already know one will be a challenge. Merely judging if a…
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Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer…
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Lots of people were skeptical, but that's always true when you do something that hasn't been done before.
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