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There's no way I know, to get through the pain of a startup without belief that the mission really matters. — Sam Altman

When it comes to starting startups, in many ways, it's easier to start a hard startup than an easy startup. — Sam Altman

I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups. — Todd Park

Thiel's law": a startup messed up at its foundation cannot be fixed. — Peter Thiel

In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup. — Peter Diamandis

It's difficult to get large groups of people, to the extreme levels of focus and productivity that you need, for a startup to be successful. — Sam Altman

For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude. — Sam Altman

Building a great team is the lifeblood of any startup, and finding great talent is one of the hardest and costliest tasks any CEO will ever face. — Jay Samit

The way forward is to learn to see every startup in any industry as a grand experiment. — Eric Ries

If you can't develop a lot of paying customers for your product, you don't really have a business to build. — Timothy Freriks

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown. — Eric Ries

Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business. — Peter Diamandis

In an era of endless innovation and constant disruption, what is any company really worth? How does a startup determine its valuation? — Jay Samit

The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision. — Eric Ries

You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup ... — Ben Horowitz

I operate my life like a startup. I learn a little bit and I test something else out and I keep iterating and iterating until it's perfect. — Rameet Chawla

My most radical shift was leaving Intel and joining Google, a small startup at the time, even though I was pregnant. — Susan Wojcicki

Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence. — Eric Ries

If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it's impact, you can probably create history. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Everyone is on Facebook. It is very rare that I can't find a startup. Out of the 72 Y Combinator startups, almost all of them were on Facebook. — Robert Scoble

We seek to be as nimble as a startup. — Beth Comstock

It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it. — Kevin Systrom

If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea. — David Belasco

Almost every failed startup has a product. What failed startups don't have are enough customers. — Gabriel Weinberg

Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future. — Peter Thiel

When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA. — Aaron Patzer

The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled. — Eric Ries

Recruiting talent is no different than any other challenge a startup faces. It's all about selling. — Vivek Wadhwa

Essentials of how to do a startup do not include writing a business plan — Steve Blank

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day. — Marc Andreessen

She reverse engineered a startup based on market conditions, industry trends, and nascent investor fads. — Douglas Rushkoff

The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology. — Aaron Levie

As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death. — Ryan Holmes

Entrepreneurs don't ask for permission. They act per a mission. — Ryan Lilly

As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup. — Peter Diamandis

If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft is about. — Leroy Hood

Creating the right advisory board for your startup can be the single most important step you take in building a new business. — Jay Samit

It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup. — Sam Altman

Growth and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these. — Sam Altman

The only way to train for a startup is by starting. — Chris Campbell

A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup. — Sam Altman

A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. — Steve Blank

You can basically change everything in a startup but the market. — Sam Altman

It takes years and years, usually a decade, to create a great startup. — Sam Altman

If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that. — Sam Altman

There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity. — Mike McCurry

In a startup, in the early days, it can be hard to explain what you do. — Trip Adler

Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter. — Sam Altman

Using the Lean Startup approach, companies can create order not chaos by providing tools to test a vision continuously. — Eric Ries

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried. — Ben Horowitz

A startup is a team of people on a mission, and a good culture is just what that looks like on the inside. — Peter Thiel

In general don't start a startup you're not willing to work on for ten years. — Sam Altman

A hardware startup with no funding is a risky venture. — Brendan Iribe

In the early days of a startup, people's compensation is whatever you negotiate with a founder and it's all over the place. — Sam Altman

A board member of mine used to say sales fix everything in a startup, and that is really true. — Sam Altman

I had started at a small startup as a big-company guy. Now I was leaving a big company as a small-startup guy. — Douglas Edwards

More important than starting any startup, is getting to know a lot of potential co-founders. — Sam Altman

An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument. — Robert A. Rice Jr.

When you're in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. — Steve Jobs

When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it. — Paige Craig

St. Louis is a customer- and partner-rich environment for any financial tech startup. — Jim McKelvey

A hardware startup with a lot of funding and a lot of momentum has a lot less risk. — Brendan Iribe

It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company. — Guy Kawasaki

I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business. — Walter Isaacson

A startup will always prefer to work with an IP attorney, who believes in their idea, not one, who is only bothered about billing. — Kalyan C. Kankanala

You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer. — Sam Altman

I think the single most reassuring thing about doing a startup is knowing in advance how difficult it is going to be. — Jared Tame

We hear again and again from founders, that they wish they had waited to start a startup until they came up with an idea they really loved. — Sam Altman

In the early stage of a startup, hiring senior people is usually a mistake. You just want people that get stuff done. — Sam Altman

Investing in a startup does not make you an entrepreneur any more than buying a grand piano makes you a concert pianist. — Jeffrey Fry

Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish up school. That was way more important for me. — Kevin Systrom

You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful. — Sam Altman

Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven. — Fred Wilson

Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself. — Paul Graham

You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other hobbies. — Sam Altman

When you are a startup you need to hire very fast, and sometimes you have to restructure very fast. — Maurice Levy

A diligent hawker today, can be a great tycoon tomorrow — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup. — Fred Wilson

By the way, that's my number one piece of advice if you're going to join a startup: pick a rocket ship. — Sam Altman

The first follower is what transforms the lone nut into a leader, and in a startup, that first follower is usually a cofounder. — Guy Kawasaki

Entrepreneurship is a scary city! NO water- dig wells, NO food- plant trees, NO family- build one, NO identity- prove yourself. — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Volatility and length, that's the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that's a big valuable thing. — Ben Horowitz

Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart. — Roy Bennett

In a startup no facts exist inside the building, only opinions. — Steve Blank

One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar. — Peter Thiel

Wait to start a startup until you come up with an idea that you feel compelled to explore. — Sam Altman

Founding a successful startup is no different than forming a rock band. — Jay Samit

So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup. — Sam Altman

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

Every thing at a startup gets modeled after the founders. Whatever the founders do becomes the culture. — Sam Altman

It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down. — Eric Ries

A startup can focus on only one metric. So you have to decide what that is and ignore everything else. — Noah Kagan

Building a startup is an exercise in institution building; thus, it necessarily involves management. This — Eric Ries

We've all seen it. A #startup begins with a #dream, a #passion to do something others have missed or overlooked. — David Brier

Make a start, even if you have a controversial idea! — Abhishek Ratna

At its heart, a startup is a catalyst that transforms ideas into products. — Eric Ries

In a big company, you can do what all the other big companies are doing. But a startup can't do what all the other startups do. — Paul Graham