Quotes About Entrepreneurship

I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use.

I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.

I suggest we go into business together. 'Carlyle and Skull,' we'd call it, or possibly 'Skull and Co.' Yes, that's it, with a little picture of me over the door. I can see it now….

A hosting platform was built first, which generated cash and we then used to cash to create the builder platform. ~ Engineer.ai CEO

From building websites, apps and even wearables, Builder.ai can create almost anything. - Engineer.ai CEO

Our platform provides a solution for any business to operate, manage and scale their technology needs. Engineer.ai Founder

Software is the center of every business today and the market has been waiting for a solution that eliminates technical barriers to build software so that everyone can engage in the new economy. ~ Manu Gupta

We created Engineer.ai so that everyone can build an idea without learning to code. ~ Engineer.ai CEO

We're removing one of the biggest bottlenecks, developing a prototype, which enables people to build confidence in their idea before they invest significant time and money. ~ Engineer.ai CEO

Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.

Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.

Success is not delivering a feature; success is learning how to solve the customer's problem.

Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

Ask most entrepreneurs who have decided to pivot and they will tell you that they wish they had made the decision sooner.

The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build—the thing customers want and will pay for—as quickly as possible.

After more than ten years as an entrepreneur, I came to reject that line of thinking. I have learned from both my own successes and failures and those of many others that it's the boring stuff that matters the most. Startup success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Startup success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.

Startups exist not just to make stuff, make money, or even serve customers. They exist to learn how to build a sustainable business. This

waiting too long to release can lead to the ultimate waste: making something that nobody wants.

Only 5 percent of entrepreneurship is the big idea, the business model, the whiteboard strategizing, and the splitting up of the spoils. The other 95 percent is the gritty work that is measured by innovation accounting: product prioritization decisions, deciding which customers to target or listen to, and having the courage to subject a grand vision to constant testing and feedback.

The CEO and VP of product, instead of building their business, are engaged in the drudgery of solving just one customer's problem. Instead of marketing themselves to millions, they sold themselves to one.

entrepreneurship should be considered a viable career path for innovators inside large organizations.

Think big. Start small. Scale fast.