For a long time, I've ranted against naming your startup community 'Silicon Whatever.' Instead, I believe every startup community already has a name. The Boulder startup community is called Boulder. The L.A. startup community is called L.A. The Washington D.C. startup community is called Washington D.C.
I've been very fortunate to be at the startup of a lot of different things. I was the startup of the Pancrase organization in Japan. Became a big figure over there. Then I was in the UFC and was at the startup of that, and I was a big figure in that. Twice. Not only in the beginning but also when it was taken over.
Techstars is truly global; you'll see us continue to expand all our programs worldwide, including accelerators, our venture capital, as well as the UP Global programs including Startup Weekend, Startup Next, Startup Digest, etc.
If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.
When it comes to starting startups, in many ways, it's easier to start a hard startup than an easy startup.
Forget startup companies. The next frontier is startup countries.
There are too many ways that a startup gig can go sideways. If the startup won't agree to hefty severance, pass.
If someone is choosing between joining McKinsey or your startup it's very unlikely they're going to work out at the startup.
I believe there's a killer in all of us. I know there's one inside me. When you know the killer in you and you know also that you do not want to kill, you have to set yourself upon a course of learning. Not to kill that killer then, but to control it.
Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of a cobweb in the rain represent a decisive moment? The exposure time was probably three or four minutes. That's a pretty long moment. I would say the decisive moment in that case was the moment in which I saw this thing and decided I wanted to photograph it.
Indecisiveness wears a person out.
Someone who is not a killer is not going to watch a TV show and decide to be a killer.
I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.
In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
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.