Quotes About Risk

The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.

A hardware startup with a lot of funding and a lot of momentum has a lot less risk.

The reality of a startup is you have failures very often.

Part of the magic of a startup is the fear of death. You have only so much money in the bank, and if you don't get to the right milestone before you run out, then the company goes under - it's over.

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.

There are too many ways that a startup gig can go sideways. If the startup won't agree to hefty severance, pass.

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

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

As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death.

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.

Working on a startup is a balancing act: being crazy enough to believe your idea can take off but not crazy enough to miss the signs when it's clearly not going to.

Founding a successful startup is no different than forming a rock band.

A startup, to a some degree, is a set of those challenges of, 'If you don't solve this, you're dead.'

I wish I had known the value of interning at a startup before starting my own. There is so much I could have learned on somebody else's dime in a much lower-risk environment.

Failure will happen. It's a normal part of the startup process.

In a startup, there have to be challenges. Otherwise, someone else would have done it already. And that's almost the most exciting part.

Startups often have to do dubious things.

I love working with really early stage startups where the outcome is still in doubt. Maybe they'll go on to greatness, or maybe they'll never get off the runway at all.

I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.

If I had a do over, I'd indubitably start investing in startups earlier in life!

In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it.

Startups are all about breaking the rules and changing the 'natural order' of things. So let's do that for Series A terms.

I have seen a lot of now-great companies at their earliest stages, and these early-stage startups are not built by the senior people who know how to run and scale big-company machines.

The only rollercoasters I get on are startups.