Quotes About Startup

I can't promise you will succeed if you stick with your start-up. What I can promise is that if you give up, you won't possibly succeed.

I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.

I believe that starting any business should be as easy as a 10-year-old starting a lemonade stand.

As a young entrepreneur starting an enterprise company, be prepared for the fact that you'll need to get involved in enterprise sales. Everyone wants to speak to the founder, and this is also how you'll get feedback on your product. It's worth bringing in early somebody with enterprise sales experience.

I remember, when we were starting Tinder, we were like, 'We're going to be the next Instagram!' I remember sending my parents emails being like, 'We got 300 members!'

When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.

Work-life balance for founders doesn't look like work-life balance for everyone else. Starting a company isn't a nine-to-six job - or a nine-to-nine job, or a nine-to-midnight job.

Globalisation for a startup is exciting; you have to learn so fast about the different cultures of the world.

Hold at least one all-hands meeting every quarter and, to underscore the startup's team concept, make sure at least one additional executive joins you in leading the meeting.

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.

Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world - if you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world.

If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup, then you are in a very precarious and difficult position.

It almost goes without saying that when you are a startup, one of the first things you do is you start setting aside money to defend yourself from patent lawsuits, because any successful company, even moderately successful, is going to get hit by a patent lawsuit from someone who's just trying to look for a payout.

ICOs cannot escape startup evolution characteristics. This means that their growth will be hard fought, hard earned, and hardly a walk in the park.

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

One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar.

When you get involved in a startup, you have to be passionate.

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

I separate the world of startup communities into two constituencies - leaders and feeders. The leaders are entrepreneurs and the feeders everyone else.

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

A hardware startup with a lot of funding and a lot of momentum has a lot less risk.

Launching a successful product or startup has little to do with luck. Any business that gains traction on the market is the result of very careful strategizing and market analysis, not to mention the development of an original product or service.

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.