Market Exploration Quotes

Europe is kind of fragmented. Africa is nascent; we've made a few investments, including four in Egypt. I visit 50-60 cities and 20-25 countries a year. The intent is to be a global fund, which takes time and prioritization.

Please don’t get hung up on this question of whether you need to have experience in an industry before you launch your startup.

It's not a good idea to always look for new frontiers, especially when you have opportunities in your existing businesses, in your own backyard.

If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.

Apart from boosting our long-term economic strength like other Asian economic powers, Philippine companies expanding overseas and going beyond our comfort zones, or going to some uncharted territories, will help sharpen our management skills.

You have this idea that you think is awesome. You want to have that broadest group you possibly can. You don't want to just talk to 1 type of person and learn that, you want to get familiar with the space.

Money, while clearly helpful in solving myriad problems, can often conceal a business's real flaws. It can also risk rigidifying a company's business model at the very moment it should be in 'customer discovery' mode or iterating around market opportunities.

Once you have permission to talk to someone, finding new products or services for them is a smart way to grow.

I already have enough apparel businesses that are either doing well or not really doing anything at all, and I'm looking to broaden my portfolio.

The only useful information about the market will be what I create through expeditions into the market, through testing and probing, trial and error, by selling real products to real people who pay real money.

The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives.

If you're not out testing what's complementary to your brand, you're not making the most of your income potential.

I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me.

The way forward is to learn to see every startup in any industry as a grand experiment.

My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit.

Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.

Any business is the same in the beginning because nobody knows where it's going to ride.

We represent companies from around the world who say, "I want to look at Japanese companies. I want to invest in Japan."