San Francisco is a great startup community that you shouldn't even try to model yourself after because it's just special. — David Cohen Copy Share Image
“Every prosperous business was first a courageous decision to begin and then a constant determination to continue.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
What's crucial is to never get stuck. Making hard decisions is such an important part of being a startup in order to… — Payal Kadakia Copy Share Image
A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed. — Adam Draper Copy Share Image
“A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they're regular PCs and so they're not… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
Separation, I think, in an early-stage company or a startup environment is not a good thing. You need to basically live and… — Shervin Pishevar Copy Share Image
For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
“The most successful startups are those that are able to balance the needs of their customers, employees, and investors, while staying true… — Justin Ho Guo Shun Copy Share Image
If you are a new startup company, try not to arouse the interest or suspicion of your competition; especially if they are… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
We are calling ourselves a startup nation, but the number of people who set out on their own is very low; even… — Ronnie Screwvala Copy Share Image
I think because of the iPhone and the fact that we now have a ubiquitous internet, our creativity in the startup space… — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
I think whether it's a good idea or not to take the startup plunge comes down to the responsibilities of the individual.… — Chieh Huang Copy Share Image
“I intentionally create products and processes around projects with a beginning and an end. It’s amazing to see the few that come… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunate to be at the startup of a lot of different things. I was the startup of the Pancrase… — Ken Shamrock Copy Share Image
Startup culture fosters laughter, debate, and a passionate, non-politically-correct focus on getting things done. And this startup of culture is something entrepreneurs… — Clay Clark Copy Share Image
It's maybe an unrecognized fact of academia that what you spend a lot of your time doing is convincing people of your… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
“In the Lean Startup model, every product, every feature, every marketing campaign—everything a startup does—is understood to be an experiment designed to… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
“describes how in 1999 he and some friends founded his first startup, Epinions, a website for consumer reviews. They had to raise $8m” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
“Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.” — Jack Dorsey Copy Share Image
I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Coming from Ireland, it's quite hard to do a startup because you're culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing.… — John Collison Copy Share Image
“Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to those in the dark, at first,… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
Every weekend I would take a train to Delhi and sneak into startup events. I really enjoyed meeting entrepreneurs who were solving… — Ritesh Agarwal Copy Share Image
“In a startup, the purpose of analytics is to find your way to the right product and market before the money runs… — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
Most startup companies have two people, and they figure out creative ways to swarm problems. They move faster and have more impact. — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
“In the startup game, there are no real rules, only laws, and weakly enforced ones at that. In the end, success would… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
“If we think a magic fairy named “time” is finally going to make all things right in the world, we’re dreaming.” — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
In a startup, there have to be challenges. Otherwise, someone else would have done it already. And that's almost the most exciting… — Payal Kadakia Copy Share Image
Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish… — Kevin Systrom Copy Share Image
“Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging—to take this big network of machines that… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Startup's biggest enemy is perfection. Perfection takes time. Time takes money. No money means checkmate, game over. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
“I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
“I think the single most reassuring thing about doing a startup is knowing in advance how difficult it is going to be.” — Jared Tame Copy Share Image
If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
If your startup is only in the development or idea stage, there is almost no better predictor of failure - I mean,… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
“It's not too late to start! Start right now anyway. Set goals and take action. Have courage to fail, fall, suffer. Don't… — Lord Robin Copy Share Image
