123 Startup Quotes for You to Enjoy

When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it. Paige Craig

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In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders: We were highly technical but had never done a startup before. We also didn't know anyone in the Valley - investors, other entrepreneurs, potential hires. YC seemed like a great way to bootstrap that network. Patrick Collison

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In the startup world, 'not working' is normal. Paul Graham

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What's crucial is to never get stuck. Making hard decisions is such an important part of being a startup in order to keep moving forward. Payal Kadakia

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One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar. Peter Thiel

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Startup India is welcome for the economy, but it cannot be accompanied by 'Shut Up India' in society. What gives Startup India its strength is freedom of expression, thought, and dissent. You choke this, and you choke entrepreneurship. Rahul Gandhi

People are still very focused on the startup story: Risk-taking founders, with a bold idea, some capital and a network supportive environment, go out and take the shot on goal. But the problem is, this is no longer the truth about what makes Silicon Valley so special. Reid Hoffman

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

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As I've traveled the country, we visit tech incubators all the time where women are going into their second or third act in their career and learning how to be software programmers, or how to work at startup companies, and learning a completely different skill set. I think it's never too late. Reshma Saujani

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Whether you're a government entity, a large enterprise, or a startup, a true digital transformation takes advantage of technology to focus on the customer, automates work that does not need manual interference, and unleashes your people to truly make decisions that change the path of your company. Safra A. Catz

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If you aren't committed to diversity of thought, you have no business launching a startup. Sallie Krawcheck

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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that. Sam Altman

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There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good. Sam Altman

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The median startup is a business that's capitalized with about $25,000. The financing of that business comes from the entrepreneur's savings. The business is a retail or personal service business, a hair salon or a clothing store, that kind of thing. Scott Shane

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Developing a good, healthy culture is extremely important at a startup. Culture reflects the essence of a startup's operation because it directly affects the success of a company's hiring practices and overall strategy. Scott Weiss

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Market type determines the startup's customer feedback and acquisition activities and spending. It changes customer needs, adoption rates, product features, and positioning as well as its launch strategies, channels and activities. Steve Blank

Failure will happen. It's a normal part of the startup process. Steve Blank

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The Lean Startup process builds new ventures more efficiently. It has three parts: a business model canvas to frame hypotheses, customer development to get out of the building to test those hypotheses, and agile engineering to build minimum viable products. Steve Blank

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Founders have continually struggled with and adapted the 'big business' tools, rules, and processes taught in business schools when startups failed to execute 'the plan,' never admitting to the entrepreneurs that no startup executes to its business plan. Steve Blank

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