“ One of the reasons I think I’ve been able to accomplish as much as I have is because I prefer to live in the present while spending my spare moments thinking about the future. ”
Ted Turner
“ The easiest way to get 1 million people paying is to get 1 billion people using ”
Phil Libin
“ There’s a big difference between adding a feature to an existing product and building a product around a philosophy. ”
Dustin Curtis
“ Big companies will talk to you, criticize you, then copy you. ”
David Ulevitch
“ If you find a lawyer who talks about solutions not problems, hold on to them. ”
Steve Blank
“ As consumers we should be careful with large purchases and generous to those less fortunate than ourselves, as entrepreneurs we should be careful with our burn rates and raise more money than we would typically raise and as policymakers we should be mindful of the long term consequences of our policies. ”
Fabrice Grinda
“ There is no such thing as a great executive. There is only a great executive for a specific company at a specific point in time. ”
Ben Horowitz
“ We tried charging for Stack Exchange, and that didn’t work so well. So we asked ourselves, ‘How would the people of 1999 solve this problem?’ And the best answer we could come up with was, let’s make the damn thing free, and get some VC somewhere to pay for it. ”
Joel Spolsky