Quotes About Business

As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'

The business model is both the starting point and the scorecard for Customer Development progress.

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

As business moves forward, you realize that God has his hand on the whole business and that he brought people to you who are like-minded. It starts with faith.

Everybody starts with creating or acquiring certain property in order to create the material to work with. When we started our business, we thought first of all about development, how to grow, and we managed to do this, even with all the difficulties and all the difficult rules that were implemented in Russia at that time.

Networking is all about connecting with people. But then again, isn't that what life is about? The more time you can find to get out of the office and build true friendships, the farther your startup will go. Entrepreneurs need to remember to spend as much time working on their business as they do in their business.

Startup culture fosters laughter, debate, and a passionate, non-politically-correct focus on getting things done. And this startup of culture is something entrepreneurs struggle to maintain as the business grows. To ensure this environment continues, create a strong foundation and ensure everyone is on board.

A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.

Face-to-face customer feedback refines or validates every component of the startup's business model, not just the product itself.

The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.

Every new startup business creates new opportunities. It doesn't matter whether you have a new app for college students or a home medical device for senior citizens; there are other multibillion noncompetitive corporations that are spending millions of dollars trying to market their goods and services to your same audience.

A new DAO is like a startup. It requires a product/market fit, business model realization, and a lot of users/customers.

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

It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.

Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.

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.

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.

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.

If you look at it now from the Google perspective, how do you make billions of dollars? Hundreds of millions doesn't count anymore; how do you make billions? And that's the question we've been tasked. Is this a Google-scale business, or is this a nice business for a startup?

Like any startup in hyper-growth mode, growth often brings change, and with it, evolution in the executive team.

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 think the Indian AI ecosystem is growing rapidly. A lot of Indian entrepreneurs reach out to me seeking feedback about startups and products. And some of them have very interesting business ideas.

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.

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