Market Readiness Quotes

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Revolutionary products don't fail because they are shipped too early. They fail because they aren't revised fast enough.

The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'

You can't replace luck and timing. With Workday, our timing was perfect. We started in 2005 right as cloud computing was beginning to take off.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Why now, why is this the perfect time for this particular idea, and to start this particular company?

I learned how important timing is; having a really good idea five years ahead of its time is practically worthless.

Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.

You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.

When you say we're bringing a product to market, you make sure you execute.

There are a lot of designers who think they understand technology and a lot of technology guys who think they understand design. But to put them together and make it robust and repeatable for the mass market? It's an art.

I tried to put direct to consumer through a wholesales channel - the industry was just not ready to adapt and change. The other issue I had was with Jimmy Choo.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Our success at Cisco has been defined by how we anticipate, capture, and lead through market transitions. Over the years, I've watched iconic companies disappear - Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Wang, Digital Equipment - as they failed to anticipate where the market was heading.

Most big companies work in stealth until they think they have a consumer product ready to go.

I went public too soon. Stay private as long as you can.

If you are ready to put a product or service on the market, look at that product or service and see how you can test it inexpensively. Keep in mind, you'll only need one; you don't need 1,000 to get the answer.

If we launch a new product, we have to time it right. It's not about how soon you can do it but how well we can do it.

You know you've built a product that can hit the mainstream when your wife, your father, and your mother-in-law can get involved.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

Nintendo looks at every technology. Often times, we look at technology before it really is considered mass-market ready. The original DS had touch screen on a device. First time that a mass market product had touch screen built in.

It's not enough to have a value-adding product in a big market. You also need the right conditions. Will you be able to scale revenues within a 5-10 year time frame? Is the timing right? YouTube wouldn't have worked pre-broadband.

By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.

As an entrepreneur, you can have an instinct, and your instinct is right, but your idea you're substantiating that into is wrong, and the world is not ready for it.

I understand the New York media is a lot more magnified than most markets, but I'm up for that challenge. I'd definitely be suitable, and I'd be primed for a market like that.