Startup Quotes

Early on, with any startup show, you're really building credibility and making it stand on its own. (David Boreanaz)
A startup is a temporary organization in search of a scalable, repeatable, profitable business model. View quote
Steve Blank
It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur. View quote
Harold Hamm
There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity. View quote
Mike McCurry
My most radical shift was leaving Intel and joining Google, a small startup at the time, even though I was pregnant. View quote
Susan Wojcicki
Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products. View quote
Jay Samit
If you're afraid to fail in a startup, you're destined to do so. View quote
Steve Blank
A startup is not a smaller version of a large company. View quote
Steve Blank
There are several generations of Silicon Valley CEOs who "pay-it-forward." It's an understood, underground thing you don't talk about. You give back to younger founders and entrepreneurs without asking for anything. The goal is to pass on what we learned to make our startup ecosystem better. View quote
Steve Blank
In a startup, founders define the product vision and then use customer discovery to find customers and a market for that vision. View quote
Steve Blank
On Day One, a startup is a faith-based enterprise. (Steve Blank)
Customer Development says "Glad you have these hypotheses about your startup. All of them are probably wrong.”. View quote
Steve Blank
A startup is in reality a 'faith-based enterprise' on day one. To turn the vision into reality and the faith into facts (and a profitable company), a startup must test those guesses, or hypotheses, and find out which are correct. View quote
Steve Blank
Bain Capital is an investment partnership which was formed to invest in startup companies and ongoing companies, then to take an active hand in managing them and hopefully, five to eight years later, to harvest them at a significant profit. View quote
Mitt Romney
Since 1954, the raw speed of computers, as measured by the time it takes to do an addition, increased by a factor of 10,000. That means an algorithm that once took 10 minutes to perform can now be done 15 times a second. Students sometimes ask my advice on how to get rich. The best advice I can give them is to dig up some old algorithm that once took forever, program it for a modern workstation, form a startup to market it and then get rich. View quote
Maurice Wilkes
Software has to be designed by hackers who understand design, not designers who know a little about software. If you can't design software as well as implement it, don't start a startup. View quote
Paul Graham
Sweat equity is the best startup capital. View quote
Mark Cuban
At a startup, it's hard enough to get a single thing right, much less a whole bunch of things. Especially if the things you are trying to do are not only dissimilar but actively impede each other. View quote
Marc Randolph
It almost goes without saying that when you are a startup, one of the first things you do is you start setting aside money to defend yourself from patent lawsuits, because any successful company, even moderately successful, is going to get hit by a patent lawsuit from someone who's just trying to look for a payout. View quote
Charles Duhigg
If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup, then you are in a very precarious and difficult position. View quote
Chamath Palihapitiya
The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination. (Bill Rancic)
When we launched If WeRanTheWorld, I said to my team, I want us to innovate in every aspect of how we design and operate this as a business venture, as much as the web platform itself - because I want us to design our own startup around the working lives that we would all like to live. Women and men alike. View quote
Cindy Gallop
Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian. View quote
Carlo Ratti
Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted. View quote
Eric Ries
The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled. View quote
Eric Ries