Seven days after Steve Jobs passed away there is still a Michael Jacksonesque hype in the media, which is a good reason for me to do another (probably final) post on Steve Jobs focusing on the lessons entrepreneurs can learn from him. My favourite take-aways are written in bold :
- Experts are clueless (figure stuff out by yourself)
- Customers cannot tell you what they need (so you need to propose them something new and useful)
- Present big challenges to your employees
- Design counts (not only price or functionality)
- Big Graphics and Big fonts
- Jump Curves (don’t wait for your son to do that)
- Either it works (or it doesn’t)
- Price isn’t Value (and the left bottom corner sucks)
- A-players higher A-players (and B-players higher C-players, and so on...)
- Real CEOs can demo (and don’t let the VP do that)
- Don’t worry be crappy (or be brave be Beta)
- You need to believe in something (before seeing it)
RIP Steve Jobs.
