Jose Ferreira Quotes

India is a large market where our focus will be to grow faster than the market and add few percentage points to our market share every year.

Many first-time founders fail to understand the difference between the potential of the Total Addressable Market (TAM) and the very finite subsection they can hope to capture. No company ever captures the entire market they pioneer. Innovation doesn't happen in a vacuum, and others will jump in from the moment you've identified the potential.

Never, never try to scope the market.

The trick is, a market has to be nonexistent when you start. If the market is large early on, you will have too many competitors. You have to make it large.

I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

I think there is a niche for every market.

A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.

It is important to exhaust the potential of existing markets. But it is equally important to open up new markets.

When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly.

We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.

You've got to figure out how you're going to come in and significantly impact and redefine a market such that you become a market share leader in it.

The more evident it is that a certain company is going to become the market leader in a big market space, then the higher the valuation goes because the risk has been dramatically reduced.

Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

If someone doesn't believe enough in your product to put money in to it, then you should rethink how good the product is.

There is absolutely a gap in the market for thirty something women and, the more I look at it, the more I feel there needs to be a sense of ease and choice.

When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.

One of the top causes of startup death - right after cofounder problems - is building something no one wants.

The general market wants what I do.

It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.

We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries.

You need to define yourself in the marketplace.

Get your product in front of actual, living, breathing strangers. Your college roommate's approval does not mean there's market demand.

There are a significant number of people who appreciate what we do, and most of them gravitate to Analog because this is where they can find it. The other magazines tend to share their audiences, which may result in each of them having a smaller market share.

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me.