Building Quote by Kathryn Minshew

In YC's case, the number one cause of early death for startups is cofounder blowups.

— Sam Altman

A startup, to a some degree, is a set of those challenges of, 'If you don't solve this, you're dead.'

— Reid Hoffman

The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up.

— Sam Altman

Without disruptions, startups can't survive.

— Steve Jurvetson

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

— David Cohen

We can never have enough startups that are pursuing unique solutions to important problems.

— Chris Yeh

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

— Sean Parker

A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.

— Adam Draper

There's a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under the rug, but that's the worst thing you…

— Christopher Poole

I don't know a startup that hasn't been through tough times.

— Vinod Khosla

“Startups don't just die, they commit suicide”

— Takudzwa Razemba

Part of the magic of a startup is the fear of death. You have only so much money in the bank, and if you…

— Scott Weiss