Business Quote by Ryan Holiday

“Many teams get into a lot of grief with the concept of a minimum viable product (MVP) because on the one hand we are…

— Marty Cagan

“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

Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold…

— Marc Andreessen

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work…

— Eric Ries

Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale.

— Fred Wilson

In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Silicon Valley, we call this 'gaining experience.'…

— Sebastian Thrun

“To get an early market started requires an entrepreneurial company with a breakthrough technology product that enables a new and compelling application, a technology…

— Geoffrey A. Moore

It's a standard thing you hear from startup people - that their product is somehow improving the world. And if you follow the reasoning,…

— Cathy O'Neil

Products a start-up builds are really experiments…Learning about how to build a sustainable business is the outcome of those experiments [which follow] a three-step…

— Eric Ries

Fast growth in a start-up is a sign that customers like what you're doing.

— Peter Cohan

Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world. If you build a solution to a problem lots of people have,…

— Kevin Systrom

Corporate houses and big companies can be meaningful distribution channels for start-ups.

— Steve Jurvetson