Quotes About Startup

There has never been a better time in the history of time than right now to start a business.

Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.

There's never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture.

The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.

So, similarly, there's another exchange (auction) that sells smaller, cheaper companies. It's called the Over The Counter Market (OTC). It's more like the lower priced rocking chair / furniture auction. I'm not knocking the companies that are sold there. They are just much smaller companies, many of which are just getting started. Some of these startup companies can offer incredible profit opportunities if you have good research and pick the right one.

Usually, what I recommend to entrepreneurs is to focus on telling the problem first, about the customer or the person who has that problem.

I joined YC to recover from the brain damage of starting companies.

I joined the board of Etsy when it was just three founders, and I helped recruit the COO and CTO, Chad Dickerson, who later became the CEO.

Starting a successful company is one of the hardest things anyone does.

Acquiring customers at the start is one of the hardest things you'll ever experiences as an entrepreneur.

I started Oyo right out of my high school, with limited resources.

Before WeWork, I had a baby clothing company. When I started out, I had no real contacts in the garment business and no mentor to guide me on how things worked. I just had an idea to put pads on the baby clothes on to protect the baby's knees.

In the first three years of Mint, from when it was founded to when it was sold, I can honestly say that in a sustainable way, I couldn't have worked any harder on it.

Stay away from family when you are working on a startup.

My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor.

The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?

Starting a company, or even a project team, is an exceedingly hard challenge, but in the scramble to survive, founders often hire to solve immediate needs and simultaneously create long-term problems.

Every first time founder waits too long, everyone hopes that an employee will turn around. But the right answer is to fire fast.

One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better.

The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'

A hosting platform was built first, which generated cash and we then used to cash to create the builder platform. ~ Engineer.ai CEO

Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop is at the core of the Lean Startup model.