Consumer Quote by Reid Hoffman

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

— Reid Hoffman

I've long believed that if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've released too late.

— Reid Hoffman

“Every product comes with a time limit. If you delay your product launch, somebody else could launch a similar product in that time, making…

— Pooja Agnihotri

“In a startup, the first product is not designed to satisfy a mainstream customer. No startup can afford the engineering effort or the time…

— Steven Gary Blank

If we launch a new product, we have to time it right. It's not about how soon you can do it but how well…

— Bhavish Aggarwal

“The biggest waste of time in your product's early development is expecting that there is someone out there who knows more than you do.”

— Leonie Mateer

“In order to create something that deserves to sit alongside the best products in the world, you have to have spent enough time interacting…

— Max Chafkin

“THIRTY THOUSAND NEW CONSUMER products are launched each year. But over 90% of them fail—and that’s after marketing professionals have spent massive amounts of…

— Harvard Business School Press

“People do not just buy products. They buy better versions of themselves. And the packages in which they want the products to be delivered…

— Cendrine Marrouat

Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new…

— Virginia Postrel

“We shipped poor-quality products that offered mountains of trouble for the users. When I voiced my concerns, executive peers assured me that there would…

— Richard Sheridan

“the ongoing shift of product-development activities from manufacturers to users is painful and difficult for many manufacturers.”

— Eric von Hippel