Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing
The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product. - Jessica Livingston
The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.
- Jessica Livingston
My skills weren't that I knew how to design a floppy disk, I knew how to design a printer interface, I knew how to design a modem interface; it was t… - Jessica Livingston
My skills weren't that I knew how to design a floppy disk, I knew how to design a printer interface, I knew how to design a modem interface; it was t…
Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality. - Jessica Livingston
Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.
Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost si… - Jessica Livingston
Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost si…
Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on. - Jessica Livingston
Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on.
Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle. - Jessica Livingston
Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.
People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't… - Jessica Livingston
People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't…
Lots of people were skeptical, but that's always true when you do something that hasn't been done before. - Jessica Livingston
Lots of people were skeptical, but that's always true when you do something that hasn't been done before.
Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers. - Jessica Livingston
Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.
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