In the twenty-first century, we face a new set of problems that Taylor could not have imagined. Our productive capacity greatly exceeds our ability t… - Eric Ries

Startups are different: too much budget is as harmful as too little — as countless dot-com failures can attest — and startups are extremely sensitive to midcourse budgetary changes.

The question is not “Can this product be built?” In the modern economy, almost any product that can be imagined can be built. The more pertinent questions are “Should this product be built?” and “Can we build a sustainable business around this set of products and services?” To

They had “achieved failure” — successfully, faithfully, and rigorously executing a plan that turned out to have been utterly flawed.