Engineer Quote by Stewart Butterfield

Slack is actually a technical term in product management that means the excess capacity the system has to absorb any failures or to take…

— Stewart Butterfield

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

— Reid Hoffman

“I think the single most reassuring thing about doing a startup is knowing in advance how difficult it is going to be.”

— Jared Tame

“If you run your ship with the conviction that everyone’s a slacker, your employees will put all their ingenuity into proving you right.”

— Jason Fried

Startups often have to do dubious things.

— Paul Graham

“These startups try to exploit inefficiencies in novel ways.”

— Kevin Kelly

Because most startups are lean and scrappy organizations consisting of a limited number of people and supported by an even smaller number of resources,…

— Clay Clark

Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really…

— Emmett Shear

A startup can focus on only one metric. So you have to decide what that is and ignore everything else.

— Noah Kagan

Running a company is pretty demanding.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Working on a startup is a balancing act: being crazy enough to believe your idea can take off but not crazy enough to miss…

— Mike Krieger

In a startup, there have to be challenges. Otherwise, someone else would have done it already. And that's almost the most exciting part.

— Payal Kadakia