Quotes About Startup

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

You can't predict the future, and you've got to go with your gut on these things, and I'm sure if you speak to a laundry list of CEOs and people who have gone through the startup process themselves, they'll say it's an endless hurdle race, and you are inevitably going to catch your legs on hurdles, and it's just how you roll with that.

Separation, I think, in an early-stage company or a startup environment is not a good thing. You need to basically live and breathe the entire environment.

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.

If you don't share information among your startup's team, then it'll be just about a coincidence if product, marketing, and engineering are ever aligned. Those odds are too low to succeed.

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.

It's fairly common knowledge that a startup can't execute on two products simultaneously.

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

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.

There is a great deal of innovation occurring in Colorado, with some of the most brilliant minds and creative startup companies in the world formulating climate-change solutions right in our backyard.

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?

If you're a small startup considering selling your company, there's definitely far worse places to work than Facebook.

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

Campaigns are crazy things. They're half startup, half enterprise.

What always drove me was my curiosity. That's what made me join Booking and not be afraid to leave a very successful job and then go into a startup.

Co-innovation between a startup and an enterprise works best when each party fills a gap in the other's capabilities and when they share equitably in both the work and the rewards.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

My prior stint at 'Newsweek' was a very different world. So it's what it's like to be in one of these kooky software startups as a grown up. It's not entirely pleasant! It's like, 'Oh, I don't fit.'