Quotes About Startups

The idea of investing in entrepreneurs who are building things from scratch, where I can participate in their dream, was very, very exciting to me.

At the end of the day, VCs have to provide their limited partners with great returns, or they aren't going to be able to raise another fund.

When The Daily Muse initially wanted to launch a job board, our first ideas were insanely (and needlessly) complex. We wanted to integrate with social networks, gather rich personal data to build predictive algorithms, and put together numerous cool visualization tools before launching out to the world. We were just sure users would love it!

Access to capital is important for all firms, but it's particularly vital for startups and young firms, which often lack a sufficient stream of earnings to increase employment and internally finance capital spending.

I have been setting up businesses since my early 20s.

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One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you're surrounded by all these people who've done it before. This place is an assembly line that takes a couple of twenty-somethings and walks you through everything you need to learn.

We like companies that can get big and powerful on $50 million or less and not two, three, four or five billion.

The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.

I've always been an entrepreneur. I start businesses for a living.

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

Private companies should be building businesses.

I don't think 'Playboy' would have been successfully started on either coast.

In the political world, big established failing systems control the rules, suck in more and more resources rather than go bust, make it almost impossible for startups to contribute and so on.

For the devices we use... the funding models are completely screwed up. Angel funding isn't sufficient for hardware.

Entre 1995 y 2005, por ejemplo, los inmigrantes fundaron el 52 por ciento de todas las nuevas compañías de Silicon Valley.[41] Y fundaron, a su vez, más del 40 por ciento de las empresas incluidas en 2017 en el listado Fortune 500 de Estados Unidos.[42]

Rules that may be easy for Wall Street are a death sentence for startups. They are easy to break accidentally and the penalty for noncompliance is severe.

The collective value of a typical venture capital portfolio will go down before it goes up—the pattern is called the J curve—because the companies that are not going to survive die before the best performers begin to shine and pull the value of the portfolio up with them. That,

I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early.

We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.

So I think we should stop celebrating entrepreneurs and just celebrate innovation instead.

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

Because most startups are lean and scrappy organizations consisting of a limited number of people and supported by an even smaller number of resources, startups cannot afford to have any slackers on board. When you fail, you cause an 'epic failure,' and when you win, everyone in the company knows about it.

I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is something I feel strongly about.