startups

Yesterday is a pile of rubble. Today is a pile of opportunity. Life takes a new dump each morning

A person who doesn't have a structured way of writing their goals will experience disorder, even in the comfort zone.

Until you become so passionate about you and your business no one will. You are your first cheerleader and business promoter.

The really dramatic growth happens when a startup only has three of four people, so only three or four people see that, whereas tens of thousands see business as it's practiced by Boeing or Philip Morris.

Entrepreneurs see what others can't, do what others won't, and accomplish what others dream.

1. Do consumers recognize that they have the problem you are trying to solve?2. If there was a solution, would they buy it?3. Would they buy it from us?4. Can we build a solution for that problem?

It__ not about the content we are creating but how much content our customers are creating for us.

When you run a business, your business is totally different from others. This means your lifestyle, your routine and what you make out of your business is totally different. You lead a different life compared to those in your neighborhood and the people you knew around your business circle.

Entrepreneur, if you're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind

Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.

Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit.

Entrepreneur, noun: someone who takes calculated risks to add value to wider society with the hope of making money and building wealth

Entrepreneurship is all about making life easier for humanity, while money becomes a bye-product.

You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed.' [Paul Graham]

People are bad at looking at seeds and guessing what size tree will grow out of them. The way you__l get big ideas in, say, health care is by starting out with small ideas. If you try to do some big thing, you don__ just need it to be big; you need it to be good. And it__ really hard to do big and good simultaneously. So, what that means is you can either do something small and good and then gradually make it bigger, or do something big and bad and gradually make it better. And you know what? Empirically, starting big just does not work. That__ the way the government does things. They do something really big that__ really bad, and they think, Well, we__l make it better, and then it never gets better_.Building Fast Companies for Growth, Inc. September 2013

Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.

Entrepreneurship is like a weighing machine whose load content should tilt towards passion to solve a pressing need, more than passion to make money.

If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you__e competing against a lot of people. But if you__e willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you__e now competing against a fraction of those people_ Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavors that you could never otherwise pursue