Before Quote by Peter Diamandis

As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup.

— Peter Diamandis

With tech startups, it's all loose-goosie. You raise money as you go, often from friends, family and investors.

— Naval Ravikant

A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy one. That's…

— Burt Rutan

Technology ventures can succeed with very little investment, unlike many other industries. A lot of the big Internet players like Google or Yahoo were…

— Jonathan Raymond

The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can compete on…

— Clayton Christensen

Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the…

— Nicholas Negroponte

“There were several immediate reasons for the stock market’s reversal. The excesses of the dot-com boom had begun to wear on investors. Companies without…

— Brad Stone

When the internet came up, scores of companies were created. But many of them collapsed during the dot.com bubble.

— Ashok Soota

When the venture industry started, it was enough to just have money and then it was enough to sort of have this big fuzzy…

— Naval Ravikant

It takes years and years, usually a decade, to create a great startup.

— Sam Altman

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

— Marc Andreessen

Big companies such as Google and Facebook buy startups at ridiculously high prices - not for their products, but for their people.

— Vivek Wadhwa