Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Having been a venture-backed CEO, and having an established background in working with consumer-focused companies, I've built a strong network of entrepreneurs and people who can help startups.

Big companies such as Google and Facebook buy startups at ridiculously high prices - not for their products, but for their people.

The only way I know to be awesome at startups is to be obsessively focused and pegged to the floor of the deep end, gasping for air.

I aim to combine all the things I do in a comprehensive and holistic fashion that benefits startups and the people who make them grow.

Venture-backed startups with billion dollar market caps are called 'unicorns' because they are supposed to be rare mythical creatures that few entrepreneurs will ever ride.

When people say they can't find African-American startups to invest in, it just sounds a little crazy to me.

I've always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.

Too many startups get in the habit of continually raising more and more money, which has the deleterious effect of both pushing out profitability and limiting your exit options. The less rounds of capital you need to raise, the more of your company you get to own.

Doing startups is all about making mistakes.

The most important thing in startups is getting a product to market, as imperfect as it may be, and then iterating on it and continually making it better. A first rev of a site that has a few typos may not be perfect, but it was the start of something that I deeply believed in.

I'm a creature of startups. For example, I don't want government interference in the startup ecosystem.

I want something completely new and different to happen, and lots of it. Stuff that makes us change the way we think about a market or the world. Something that inspires a new generation of crazy startups doing crazy things.

At Andreessen Horowitz, we talk about the notion of being 'too hungry to eat.' That's to say, we often see startups that are so entrenched in the product that the founders forget they need muscle to grow.

Before Blockchain Capital, I was cranking out startups like an incubator.

The biggest problem is startups in search of a problem. Chase what you're passionate about; you'll probably already have knowledge in the space.

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.

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Everyone is on Facebook. It is very rare that I can't find a startup. Out of the 72 Y Combinator startups, almost all of them were on Facebook.

All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

It's amazing that about 10% of startups couldn't be found on Facebook because they had common names or names that weren't searchable.

I love working with really early stage startups where the outcome is still in doubt. Maybe they'll go on to greatness, or maybe they'll never get off the runway at all.

Was I going to start companies outside of Shutterstock or inside? Going public kind of meant I was going to start them inside, and I kind of thought this through and decided that if I was going to do that, I was going to continue to operate Shutterstock like it was an incubator of startups.

I was always really interested in startups and fascinated by what they were working on.