Quotes About Startup

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.

At a startup, it's hard enough to get a single thing right, much less a whole bunch of things. Especially if the things you are trying to do are not only dissimilar but actively impede each other.

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

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.

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.

Nvidia's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, is an engineer and a chip designer. He cofounded Nvidia and still runs it like a startup.

There are too many ways that a startup gig can go sideways. If the startup won't agree to hefty severance, pass.

Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish up school. That was way more important for me.

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.

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.

I think the issues around diversity of all kinds are really a huge problem in the startup world.

As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death.

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day.

It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.

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.

Everybody who goes into government gets somewhat chewed up in the process. Being a senior appointee is like being at a startup, only more so: You run into opposition from the entrenched oligopoly of contractors whose business model is to extract as much money from government as possible for doing as little as possible.

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

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.