Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Being in a band is very much like a startup. You start in a garage. You hope to get interest from investors, like a major record label.

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.

Recruiting talent is no different than any other challenge a startup faces. It's all about selling.

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.

Entrepreneurship works on the apprenticeship model. The best way to learn how to be an entrepreneur is to start a company and seek the advice of a successful entrepreneur in the area in which you are interested. Or work at a startup for a few years to learn the ropes.

Despite what some investors say, older age is an advantage in the startup world. You know more about industries and markets, and have ideas for products that the world actually needs and a better ability to motivate and manage than a kid out of school does.

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

One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies.

HubSpot has used the lean startup method to build a spectacularly successful company. What I particularly love about HubSpot is that they are so geeked out on data analysis and making evidence-based decisions, which are at the heart of the Lean Startup process.

The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.

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

I have this passion for building things, so I always wanted to build a startup. I always wanted to start my own company.

Coming from Ireland, it's quite hard to do a startup because you're culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, it's much easier. It's the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood.

I got really excited about the idea of data-driven startup just as I was starting Kaggle.

If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.

For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.

I started Shutterstock without any outside funding; I believe in creating a lean startup. By not taking outside investors early, I was forced to use every dollar I had as efficiently as possible. And I was able to keep a large part of the company.

Whether by design or circumstance, every startup will eventually get disrupted.

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.

The right algorithm is to put off seeking funds for as long as physically possible. And in an ideal world, a startup would never have to seek funds at all.

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

In a startup car company, everything you do has to be done in a different way than a traditional car company. And the main reason is that all of these big car companies are operating like giant well-oiled machines - you could put a very seasoned executive in, and all he has to do is make sure the machine keeps running.

For a long time, I've ranted against naming your startup community 'Silicon Whatever.' Instead, I believe every startup community already has a name. The Boulder startup community is called Boulder. The L.A. startup community is called L.A. The Washington D.C. startup community is called Washington D.C.