Jon Oringer Quotes

I was trying to create products to complement the pop-up blocker. All these people were giving me their credit cards. I figured I could sell them something else.

I'm an accidental business person. I just love the medium. I love the Internet.

When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.

EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics.

One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

Internet entrepreneurs are using technology at every level of their company - from a one-person agency to a small firm, the newest technological advances are interwoven throughout every aspect of Internet-based businesses.

When I was 13, I opened my own business called The Awesome Pretzel Company, and my dad helped me build a pretzel cart.

All the biggest companies are based on a founder who had a need, hacked it together, and said, 'Hey, other people might want this.'

I live, breathe, and die by what kind of company we're creating.

When you start working as an Internet entrepreneur, the world is moving at a million miles an hour and is changing rapidly.

I'm in favour of entrepreneurial, risk-taking businesses that create great products and services.

My passion is creating lucrative opportunities around the world and online.

I knew a bit about the capabilities of HTML5 and have always had a preoccupation with technology. I wanted to delve deeper, to see what else it could do. The technology becomes the palette that you make the artwork with, your palette and your paint.

The Web isn't an electronic storefront to do business in the old way. The Web is the business.

There is a premium on innovation and commercializing new ideas.

My entrepreneurial spirit happened all day long because I got to think of things that kids would interact with. I was in front of my customers for 6-8 hours a day. I got to see what they like, what they don't like, what they connected with, and most importantly, did they learn something from this?

A startup is not just about the idea: it's about testing and then implementing the idea. A founding team without these skills is likely dead on arrival.

When I started Atom Factory, the idea was to do something small yet powerful. That name resonated with the mission.

We make interesting companies and real businesses. It's not social networks for cats.

In their infancy, startups need geniuses who fit their current tight-knit culture and will iterate quickly as they push towards an ambitious vision - and they need a scaffolding of advisors, strategists, early users, and product-thinkers around these savants to guide them.

We're creating this new breed of techies who are going to be the ones starting the tech companies of the future.

Build something, make something, test something, sell something. Learn for yourself if your idea is a good one.

I've built my business around the No. 7.

The Lean Startup process builds new ventures more efficiently. It has three parts: a business model canvas to frame hypotheses, customer development to get out of the building to test those hypotheses, and agile engineering to build minimum viable products.