Quotes About Startups

The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.

The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

Startups should be, if you graph their financial performance, it should be what's called a J curve. You start out at zero, you're not making any money, you're not losing any money.

There are a lot of white female-led startups that are raising money without a tech founder. At the core of it is value.

There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

For startups, SM is now crucial: it has never been cheaper and easier to reach one's customers. Entrepreneurs should thank God for Twitter, Facebook.

There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.

I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business

The great companies get built by their founders

There are exceptions of course, but most companies start with a great idea - not a pivot.

While 'The Owner's Manual' is not a formula for guaranteed success by any means, we're confident it will help reduce the failure rate of most startups that use our Customer Development process.

I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.

I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.

Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.

The problem with the Internet startup craze isn't that too many people are starting companies; it's that too many people aren't sticking with it.

Research conquers doubt. It aligns everyone around the incontestable. Research is the key to clarity—in startups, enterprises, and life itself.

Ultimately, startups are easy, stayups are hard. Keeping the show running for the long term is a lot harder than walking onstage for the first time.

Things get harder as you go, not easier. The easiest day is day one. That's the dirty little secret of business.

Today anyone can be in business.

Great companies start in garages all the time. Yours can too.

Google started as a small library search project; Starbucks had no chairs and nonstop opera music at the beginning," Sims says. "Great entrepreneurs didn't start with big ideas, for the most part.

Company naming is a key part of the branding process, but it's subject to contrasting tastes and an illiquid domain name market that results in startups wasting their time during the branding process.

I watch 'Shark Tank,' of course. It's very entertaining. I think it's actually good to help people think about the business they might start, and sometimes you get encouraged by looking at someone going into business and saying, 'Hey, I could do that.'

We are seeing a new wave of young biologists that are attacking old problems with new tools and fresh ideas, leading to new types of bio startups and creating a much-needed engine to drive Silicon Valley into the next century.