Top 287 Startups Quotes & Sayings

World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.

Startups on the inside are always badly broken.

Companies that acquire startups for their intellectual property, teams, or product lines are acquiring startups that are searching for a business model. If they acquire later stage companies who already have users/customers and/or a predictable revenue stream, they are acquiring companies that are executing.

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Startups often have to do dubious things.

Startups are companies that are still in the process of searching for a business model. Ventures that are further along and executing their business models are no longer startups; they are early-stage companies.

We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.

9/10 startups fail, which is a harsh reality in the world of entrepreneurship. However, I believe that such a high number of startups fail because they do not take the right steps necessary when building their business. The biggest challenge people have is building something that their target audience or niche really wants.

Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.

The big thing was realizing for myself that I had tied my ego to the outcomes and to startups.

If I had a do over, I'd indubitably start investing in startups earlier in life!

I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.

Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining

Startups are all about breaking the rules and changing the 'natural order' of things. So let's do that for Series A terms.

Momentum and growth are the lifeblood of startups. This is probably in the top three secrets of executing well.

The only rollercoasters I get on are startups.

The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up.

All companies - and not just startups - face the same eternal challenge: resource allocation.

'Bazillion Dollar Club' follows six struggling startups trying to get their products together.

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

I was always really interested in startups and fascinated by what they were working on.

With tech startups, it's all loose-goosie. You raise money as you go, often from friends, family and investors.

Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.

What's really happening is that every bank in the country is experimenting with the blockchain and experimenting with bitcoin to figure out where the value is. For the first time ever, they're working hand in hand with startups. Banks are asking startups for help to build products.

Startups are the engines of exponential growth, manifesting the power of innovation. Several big companies today are startups of yesterday. They were born with a spirit of enterprise and adventure kept alive due to hardwork and perseverance and today have become shining beacons of innovation.

Seed stage is an investment area that is really important for early stage startups. It feels like there is a need for trusted, experienced people to work with and to guide startups at this level.

Enterprises have customers! Ask them for feedback and you can compete with startups!

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it.

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.

We believe that startups can be built anywhere.

Doing startups is all about making mistakes.

Before Blockchain Capital, I was cranking out startups like an incubator.

Good startups usually take 10 years.

Startups are based in faith, and the ones that succeed have no fear.

Not all startups are alike. One of the key ways they differ is in the relationship between a startup's new product and its market.

I'm a creature of startups. For example, I don't want government interference in the startup ecosystem.

We can never have enough startups that are pursuing unique solutions to important problems.

Startups are constantly raising money, sometimes before they have even hired a lawyer.

Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.

Big companies such as Google and Facebook buy startups at ridiculously high prices - not for their products, but for their people.

Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.

The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

Startups have finite time and resources to find product/market fit before they run out of money. Therefore startups trade off certainty for speed, adopting 'good enough decision making' and iterating and pivoting as they fail, learn, and discover their business model.

India is one of the youngest startup nations in the world, and so far, various technology startups have witnessed phenomenal growth. It's amazing how these startups are thriving solely based on domestic demands. It speaks volumes about India's economy and its rich talent pool.

Because most startups are lean and scrappy organizations consisting of a limited number of people and supported by an even smaller number of resources, startups cannot afford to have any slackers on board. When you fail, you cause an 'epic failure,' and when you win, everyone in the company knows about it.

Quality and a great product matters, in startups, and in accelerators.

Thank heaven for startups; without them we'd never have any advances.

One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better.

Without disruptions, startups can't survive.

Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.

Early-stage startups are all about the founders and team.

Learning is the essential unit of progress for startups.

Startups are very hard no matter what you do; you may as well go after a big opportunity.

For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.

I think the rise of A.I. is bigger than the rise of mobile. Large companies are sometimes as worried about startups as startups are about large companies. Ultimately, it will be about who delivers the best service or product.

We want to nurture startups on our platform, just like we did in the old world.

The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.

In YC's case, the number one cause of early death for startups is cofounder blowups.