Quotes About Innovation

Recruiting talent is no different than any other challenge a startup faces. It's all about selling.

For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.

Entrepreneurship works on the apprenticeship model. The best way to learn how to be an entrepreneur is to start a company and seek the advice of a successful entrepreneur in the area in which you are interested. Or work at a startup for a few years to learn the ropes.

Despite what some investors say, older age is an advantage in the startup world. You know more about industries and markets, and have ideas for products that the world actually needs and a better ability to motivate and manage than a kid out of school does.

Nvidia's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, is an engineer and a chip designer. He cofounded Nvidia and still runs it like a startup.

Everybody should do at least one startup sometime in life. It's such an amazing ride.

One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies.

In the startup world, 'not working' is normal.

HubSpot has used the lean startup method to build a spectacularly successful company. What I particularly love about HubSpot is that they are so geeked out on data analysis and making evidence-based decisions, which are at the heart of the Lean Startup process.

The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.

One of the top causes of startup death - right after cofounder problems - is building something no one wants.

I have this passion for building things, so I always wanted to build a startup. I always wanted to start my own company.

I think the issues around diversity of all kinds are really a huge problem in the startup world.

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day.

Coming from Ireland, it's quite hard to do a startup because you're culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, it's much easier. It's the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood.

I got really excited about the idea of data-driven startup just as I was starting Kaggle.

Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.

If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.

For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.

Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective way to drive change in the federal government.

Whether by design or circumstance, every startup will eventually get disrupted.

In an era of endless innovation and constant disruption, what is any company really worth? How does a startup determine its valuation?

Never expect that your startup can cover every aspect of the market. The key is knowing what segment will respond to your unique offering. Who your product appeals to is just as important as the product itself.

The answers to all a startup's challenges are out there. By setting up the right mechanisms for gathering feedback, the road to success can be a less bumpy ride.