A Quote by Marc Andreessen

Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough.

Marc Andreessen

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Marc Andreessen
American - Businessman
Born: July 9, 1971

Nowadays, photographers start out with ideas, and their photos become the expression of an idea. To my way of thinking, a photo should not depend on ideas, should go beyond ideas.

Edouard Boubat

When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children, because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten.

Madeleine L'Engle

There's a reason why start-ups, especially disruptive start-ups - like Google or Amazon or Uber - are full of young people. That's because young people are not as wedded to the old fashioned ways of doing things.

Richard Thaler

I am always interested in helping and growing new tech start-ups and ideas.

John McAfee

We don't believe start-ups are the private preserve of only garage start-ups... The corporate garage is going to be the scene of a lot of action.

Anand Mahindra

History has proven time and again that downturns are the best time to invest in new start-ups. You get good deals and find a better environment for start-ups to grow.

Steve Jurvetson

The blockchain start-ups that have done ICOs are just at the beginning of something. Ask me how they are doing in a year or two years from now. I know for a fact it won't be any different from the statistics of all start-ups: 80% of them will not make it.

William Mougayar

When Hispanics start businesses at two times the rate of the average population, it seems to me that fewer regulations and dictates from Washington will do more to encourage start-ups, hiring, and progress up the economic ladder.

Rachel Campos-Duffy

Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out.

Jimi Hendrix

Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale.

Fred Wilson

I don't count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. That is when I start counting, because then it really counts. That's what makes you a champion.

Muhammad Ali

I think there are too many start-ups and not enough real companies.

Esther Dyson

I have seen the way a conglomerate works. My personal calling was in start-ups, so I built my own start-up.

Ananya Birla

Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.