Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Customer Development changes almost every aspect of startup behavior, performance, metrics, and, as often as not, success potential.

Decades before we were able to articulate the value of 'getting out of the building' and the Lean Startup, the value in having skunk works controlling their own distribution was starkly evident.

It's a fight to get anyone other than your mom to care about your startup.

Startup investing is one of my things, but it is not my everything.

We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.

A startup, to a some degree, is a set of those challenges of, 'If you don't solve this, you're dead.'

There are many successful startup funders who are looking for ways to make a difference in the world.

San Francisco is a great startup community that you shouldn't even try to model yourself after because it's just special.

What would I advise an aspiring young entrepreneur? Certainly I'd say read the works of great entrepreneurs and investors like Ben Horowitz, Peter Thiel, and many others. But what's more important is to get real experience at a great startup.

I wish I had known the value of interning at a startup before starting my own. There is so much I could have learned on somebody else's dime in a much lower-risk environment.

Failure will happen. It's a normal part of the startup process.

In a startup, there have to be challenges. Otherwise, someone else would have done it already. And that's almost the most exciting part.

I was one of the early folks at eBay, and by 1999, it was completely overrun by consultants from McKinsey, Bain, and BCG. It went from being a cool, fun startup to an MBA factory.

The two big startup killers are when there's just no market for what you are doing, and team problems.

If you aren't committed to diversity of thought, you have no business launching a startup.

I wish I'd known more about how to build a startup when I was younger.

I would never be able to work on a photo-sharing app or 'Internet startup XYZ.'

When you're a startup, your edge is that you don't have that many customers. So you can build a really strong relationship with them.

I think my gift lies in being a startup entrepreneur and creating environments and experiences.

I like the idea that I can make a big difference to a startup in a short period of time.

In 'That Will Never Work,' I give readers a clear-eyed insider's look into how one of the least likely startups grew into one of the world's most successful companies.

I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two little letters not as a final roadblock but as a problem to be solved.

Startups often have to do dubious things.

Successful entrepreneurship takes complete dedication and careful strategizing along with market analysis. Plus, successful startups provide countless benefits to a healthy economy and consumers in need.