How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.
The one thing I'm really excited about is that the Saint Heron shop is not grounded in just fashion and clothing. We have connected with artists and artisans in every landscape.
Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.
I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
I've always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?
This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual
Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
All I do all day is think of ideas and implement them. That's an industry, you know. I'm trying to make art on a commercial scale.
To succeed in business you need to be original, but you also need to understand what your customers want.
Our job is to build a company for the future that can meet the demands of the artist and fan of the future.
Google was like the only company that was like, 'We're making so much money; let's take a picture of every street in the world.' Nobody does that.
I've been an entrepreneur since I was 18. I started a company with a bunch of buddies that got funded in my senior year, and that's when I finished school. It was called Scour, a peer-to-peer service, file-sharing.
