Market Viability Quotes

Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

I am glad that we can make bold films, different films within the commercial market and still do well.

Sirius and XM went on air in 2001. It's taken 14 years for that to be a real business. It took them combining to be a real business.

If people are willing to buy it and listen to it and they like it and enjoy it, then it's viable.

It doesn't do Costco any good if nobody can afford to buy anything.

At some point, an industry has to either succeed or fail on its own merits.

There's always a market for music.

If you need a tax credit to compete, you are probably not that competitive.

Your solution for a customer has to be either amazingly valuable to someone who will pay an enormous amount of money for it or has to be valuable to an enormous number of people who pay a small amount. And also the person you're talking to-especially if you want to raise capital or raise support-has to personally say, "I want that. I like that. That sounds really great. I want that for myself."

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.

If you look at the Internet, the vast majority of start-ups are not successful. But the ones that are, are very very successful. So you can't point to the unsuccessful ones and say, 'There's no hope for this field.' It's just that they had the wrong idea or they had bad execution.

It is only when you become commercially viable that you actually get accepted by the industry.