“It doesn’t matter how amazing your product is, or how fast you ship features. The market you’re in will determine most of your growth.”— Sahil Lavingia, medium.com
“Innovation is the process of creating value by applying novel solutions to meaningful problems.”— Joe Dwyer, digintent.com
“I’ve come back to this slide over and over for inspiration when thinking about new concepts or product ideas. It’s a great exercise in clarity. Can I boil down the idea into something as simple as a column and a row?”— Jason Fried, m.signalvnoise.com
“Abstractions, at their best, manage the increasing complexity of any system, and may be worth the tradeoff in certain situations. But, at their worst, they add a new layer of cognitive burden you need to cope with, distorting what is actually going on, and imposing the wrong kind of conceptual hiera…”— Matias Ventura, matiasventura.com
“How can a system fundamentally evolve without drastically changing?”— Matias Ventura, matiasventura.com
“What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down.”— Steve Jobs, amazon.com
“An advanced search system uses a text search engine at its lowest levels, but integrates additional ranking signals. Where basic text search only knows about individual documents, and statistics about collections of documents, an advanced search system also considers external signals like trustworth…”— Jacob Perkins, streamhacker.com