Quotes About Entrepreneurship

The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that's one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).

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ÇoÄŸu giriÅŸimci, yaln?zca pirinç ve soya sosu ile beslenir ve bir yandan da iÄŸneyle kuyu kazarcas?na kendi iÅŸini kurar.

The genesis of great companies is answering simple questions that change the world, not the desire to become rich.

people may recognize one founder as the innovator, but it takes a team to make a new venture work.

For example, how much do you think a senior vice president of Microsoft who came from McKinsey knows about starting a company?

Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.

The wisest course of action is to take your best shot with a prototype, immediately get it to market, and iterate quickly. If you wait for ideal circumstances in which you have all the information you need (which is impossible), the market will pass you by.

Can we get a bank loan to start our business? Answer you're looking for: "No," assuming it's a tech business. Tech businesses don't have liquid assets to use as collateral.

picked a short, generic, evergreen hashtag: #MotoX.

Call me idealistic, but the genesis of great companies is answering simple questions that change the world, not the desire to become rich.

Bootstrapping goes awry when entrepreneurs focus on saving pennies to the detriment of the Big Picture.

Everyone would love to have a large and growing market, perfected technology, and infinite capital. Under those conditions, anyone can be an entrepreneur. The question is what you are willing to do and can you do when the conditions are far from perfect.

La verdad es que ser emprendedor no es un puesto de trabajo. Es la actitud mental de la gente que quiere alterar el futuro.

Your job is to find venture capitalists who make early bets on unproven startups.

Complete this sentence: If your startup never existed, the world would be worse off because __________.

Investors are looking for people who can implement ideas, not only come up with them.

DO NOT ADD FOUNDERS TO ENHANCE FUNDABILITY. The reason to bring in additional founders—and any other employee but especially founders—is to make your startup stronger and more likely to succeed. Ask yourself, "Would I hire this guy if we didn't need funding?" If your answer is no, you'd be insane to hire him.

There is no such thing as a vanilla term sheet. If term sheets are ice cream, the most common flavor is Rocky Road.

Q: Should I share my secret ideas with anybody other than my dog? A: The only thing worse than a paranoid entrepreneur is a paranoid entrepreneur who talks to his dog.

Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates.

How long should our business plan be? Answer you're looking for: "You shouldn't write a business plan. You should get customers.

Find Soul Mates The next step is to find some soul mates to go on your adventure—think Bilbo Baggins in The Fellowship of the Ring. However, people love the notion of the sole innovator: Thomas Edison (lightbulb), Steve Jobs (Macintosh), Henry Ford (Model T), Anita Roddick (The Body Shop), and Richard Branson (Virgin Airlines). It's wrong.