Quotes About Startup

I had the idea for TaskRabbit one night when my husband and I were getting ready for dinner.

I hear entrepreneurs use the word 'disruption' on a daily basis and continuously hear the cliche change the world.

It is expensive to start from scratch though.

Our business has been extraordinarily lean from the beginning.

When I meet with most entrepreneurial teams, I ask them a simple question: How do you know that you're making progress? Most of them really can't answer that question.

There's always a booming market somewhere in tech - you just have to find a good idea for that market.

People in startup-land live inside it. They see themselves as really good people even when they're doing something that's very bad. There's a huge disconnect from reality in the tech world.

My dream is to build a tech company that helps people discover content.

After graduating in International Relations in 2011, I turned down safe, corporate job offers and instead accepted a position at an 'incubator' in L.A. - a tech word for a team of people who are funded by investors to create apps. I knew the future was digital and that I had to take a risk.

St. Louis is a customer- and partner-rich environment for any financial tech startup.

In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.

It's relatively easy to set up a tech company, join an accelerator, and progress down a pathway towards success. It's more complex to do that with food.

Startupfest is a very positive conference. I think a lot of it has to do with how different culturally it is from other startup or tech conferences.

When I went into a start-up in tech, I knew I could always go back to a law firm.

When I started my company in the U.S. I was always told by my mentors, 'If you want to start a tech company, you need a technical co-founder,' because outsourcing just doesn't work. It is too slow, it is too expensive, and the product is going to change a lot.

The best advice for a first time CEO is make sure you have built a strong technical founding team, and then launch!

Technical co-founders are great at envisioning where the company's going from a strategic standpoint. They have what I call the 'gut-feel' of building out their business.

I was just 21 when I met Eren Bali and Oktay Caglar at Founder Institute, the largest pre-seed startup accelerator. There were over 40 business cofounders looking for technical partners.

I love technology. I have my iPad, iPad mini, iPhone and Mac laptop. Because I love technology, I think if I were not at the NBA, I would try to be part of a tech startup company.

A lot of my energy is going to Code for America, Jen Pahlka's non-profit startup. We're doing a lot of great work teaching government how to apply technology and changing the culture of government.

I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.

and they pooled their money to set up the new bank.

She reverse engineered a startup based on market conditions, industry trends, and nascent investor fads.

Our first fiscal year, we were profitable.