World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.
Startups are very hard no matter what you do; you may as well go after a big opportunity.
Define your own success: If you're going after a million bucks with your own startup, you've already failed yourself. Instead, do something because it's interesting, challenging, it offers you the chance to learn something new or gives you the chance to work with really interesting people. Most startups that are designed to make money, especially in this environment, don't.
Momentum and growth are the lifeblood of startups. This is probably in the top three secrets of executing well.
Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.
Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.
My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn't matter if you're 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based datametrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That's why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.
Startups should be, if you graph their financial performance, it should be what's called a J curve. You start out at zero, you're not making any money, you're not losing any money.
There are certain zip codes that generate a disproportionate share of patents, of startups, of wealth, of jobs. And it's really important if other parts of the country are going to want to create these tech centers.
We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.
Thank heaven for startups; without them we'd never have any advances.
Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.
This is the reason why there are currently about 6,000 startups in Israel. And the nature of the Israeli entrepreneur—who is not afraid and is resourceful, motivated and fast moving—all give us an advantage.
If you say interesting stuff on twitter, people will follow you there. I think Jim Caruso, from MediaFirst, does this well. He’s been at every single technology event I’ve ever attended in Atlanta for the last 10 years. He knows what’s going on. He’s a technology geek at heart. . . And he’s on twitter, tweeting about local startups, global technology news, and of course, his own clients. I follow him on twitter.
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.
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better.
The thing about startups is you can make it, and if it's wrong you can remake it, and you can build a team that you want to have, a product that you want to have. You're utterly focused on your users or your customers and their needs, and trying to figure out how to meet those needs.
For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.
For startups, SM is now crucial: it has never been cheaper and easier to reach one's customers. Entrepreneurs should thank God for Twitter, Facebook.
