January 2012
1 post
learning to be a CEO through classroom training would be like learning to be an...
– Ben Horowitz
November 2011
2 posts
It seemed crazy to me that you have to be an accredited investor to invest in a...
– Steve Case
And perhaps this is why we look so wistfully at entrepreneurs. They seem to...
– America’s Healthy Infatuation With Entrepreneurs - Atlantic Mobile
October 2011
4 posts
I hate it when people call themselves ‘entrepreneurs’ when what...
– Steve Jobs
To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that...
– Jeff Bezos
I have long believed in the power of a word or a single phrase to effectively...
– Howard Schultz
Every significant invention must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a...
– Edwin Land
September 2011
1 post
4 tags
Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving...
– Reed Hastings
August 2011
1 post
The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are...
– Steve Jobs
July 2011
2 posts
They were called nerds. But I could never have built the business without them
– Mayor Bloomberg
Well run technology businesses with tremendous consumer usage make a lot of...
– Larry Page
May 2011
1 post
we invest in strength, not lack of weakness
– Marc Andreessen
April 2011
2 posts
Luck finds the doers.
– Scott Adams
Stumbling upon the next great invention in an “ah-ha!” moment is a myth. It is...
– James Dyson
November 2010
1 post
1 tag
I have always lived my life by making lists: lists of people to call, lists of...
– Richard Branson
September 2010
3 posts
1 tag
TechCrunch is my first real success, and it happened by accident.
– Michael Arrington
1 tag
From my early misadventures I realized that when conditions were good, you...
– Ted Turner
2 tags
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like...
– Biz Stone
August 2010
2 posts
3 tags
So today we tend to focus on a company’s product vision, rather than on...
– Josh Kopelman
1 tag
Most VCs are dinosaurs, and the World Wide Web is an asteroid that hit the...
– Dave McClure
July 2010
1 post
1 tag
One of the reasons I think I’ve been able to accomplish as much as I have is...
– Ted Turner
June 2010
4 posts
3 tags
The easiest way to get 1 million people paying is to get 1 billion people using
– Phil Libin
1 tag
There’s a big difference between adding a feature to an existing product and...
– Dustin Curtis
2 tags
A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.
– George S. Patton (via cordfunnel, mikehudack)
1 tag
Things shouldn’t be so super-serious all the time.
– Dennis Crowley
May 2010
6 posts
1 tag
Big companies will talk to you, criticize you, then copy you.
– David Ulevitch
2 tags
If you find a lawyer who talks about solutions not problems, hold on to them.
– Steve Blank
1 tag
As consumers we should be careful with large purchases and generous to those...
– Fabrice Grinda
3 tags
There is no such thing as a great executive. There is only a great executive for...
– Ben Horowitz
2 tags
We tried charging for Stack Exchange, and that didn’t work so well. So we asked...
– Joel Spolsky
2 tags
Organic startup ideas usually don’t seem like startup ideas at first.
– Paul Graham
April 2010
7 posts
3 tags
Many people thought of us as a bunch of idiots with lava lamps.
– Eric Schmidt
1 tag
Innovation is almost insane by definition: most people view any truly innovative...
– Ben Horowitz
2 tags
The past doesn’t matter too much when it comes to valuing companies....
– Fred Wilson
1 tag
In my lives, I’ve often found that being crazy isn’t such a bad...
– Fred Seibert
3 tags
My view of building startups is that it is somewhere between impossible and...
– David Weiden
1 tag
Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper,...
– Steve Jobs
1 tag
I had never been interested in being ‘in business’. I’ve been...
– Richard Branson
March 2010
2 posts
1 tag
My brain is wired to self-destruct after spending too much time doing the same...
– Philip “Pud” Kaplan
1 tag
Web projects don’t have to be original, but if they do something really...
– Anthony Volodkin
January 2010
2 posts
1 tag
Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People...
– Steve Jobs (via mikehudack)
The only way 100 people can ever build a larger company than one that has more...
– Paul English of Kayak
November 2009
3 posts
3 tags
Virality is something that has to be engineered from the beginning… and it’s...
– Josh Kopelman
2 tags
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above...
– James Cameron
1 tag
I spend most of my day writing. I write everything on our website. Communicating...
– Jason Fried
October 2009
9 posts
1 tag
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something,...
– Buckminster Fuller (via zachklein, oibloggerhq)
2 tags
In a startup, things seem great one moment and hopeless the next. And by next, I...
– Paul Graham
2 tags
I’ve had the experience of being on top and riding the roller coaster down...
– Ted Turner
1 tag
My research revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four basic...
– Richard Wiseman (via bijan)
1 tag
Don’t listen too much to one-hit wonders and self-appointed entrepreneur gurus....
– Rob May