"Now, four months later, we're a fully operational business, but it hasn't been an easy task to get to this point."
"65% of startups will fail because of the relationship between the co-founders."
"65% of startups fail because the relationship between the co-founders busts."
"A lot of people want to start companies but they can't because they are kind of stuck in this sort of paralysis of analysis."
"If I can do the same thing with a start-up... then I wouldn't do it."
"When you don't have that startup capital like and you're working your crappy job and you need to start the business there is not much you can do other than kind of work between I don't know 7 p.m and 2 a.m and also work on weekends."
"When someone says that a family member just got deported, I'm like Barack Obama was the Deporter in Chief."
"Evil is everywhere around us and within us. It may make us feel safer to pretend it's a political issue or a policy issue, but we are fooling ourselves."
"Ideas are easy. Execution is everything." - John Doerr
"Within hours of launching, we quickly realized that not only was it not over, but we were just at the beginning."
"Tesla didn't have technology when it started. But it does now."
"The closest thing you'll ever know about what it is to raise a baby and have a baby is to start a company and you're the founder."
"If I had heard this from a brand new startup Studio I would think oh yeah okay it's always you know there's a lot of skepticism in what is a brand new studio."
"The only really great founders are like, I am going to literally pour everything into doing this."
"More than half of business startups fail; buying into an established franchise more than doubles your chance of success."
"Airbnb should never have worked. The CEO knew nothing about business, the idea had been done before and was actually illegal in many cities, and even the company's founders didn't think it would work."
"What would kill Airbnb was not regulators or competition, it was losing their ability to be crazy to try new and exciting ideas."
"Most of them are ultimately going to die out."
"Most of your energy should be dedicated to marketing your business in your first few years of operating."
"For a young company, we are 7 year old right, you know the thing that keeps us awake is actually was how to understand our responsibility and how do we communicate with the community."
"When I was running after the VC money, when I was running after the media, when I was running after figuring out how to get a quiet by Groupon, my days were a furnace of distress and anxiety."
"Starting a startup is a very emotional thing... a lot of mental strength, the ability to adapt and be efficient."
"It is up and down and crashing and burning and going back up again and just never giving up."
"If you're gonna be a startup founder you have to be crazy."
"We were just three dudes with computers, you know? We didn't have business degrees, we didn't know anything about running a business, we were just kind of flying by the seat of our pants."
"That VC money is drying up left and right and the problem with VC money drying up left and right is that so many of these Silicon Valley companies and companies in general are funded through VC."
"How to mitigate the startup costs for cooperatives."
"From idea to tangible product, it took us 18 months and a few thousand dollars."
"First-time founders just don't get sucked into 'grass is greener' syndrome."
"Don't think that just because you've got a competitor that's started by a founder who's on their second or third company that they're gonna crush you."
"What if I told you that Airbnb was this close to never existing? Here's the story of how I helped the Airbnb founders get their very first check after they crashed a celebratory dinner at Justin.tv."
"We're gonna try all we have to do is make something and launch it that should be pretty easy right?"
"When I started my first company, people had said it's not going to work. I didn't heard that so many times but I'm still here."
"A great idea is not sufficient. You need to ensure that you have access to enough capital to get you through those first few months."
"The hardest part about starting a business is physically starting. So don't overthink it, just do."
"We're in a startup bubble. Some things are inflating, others are deflating. It's kind of a bifurcation happening everywhere."
"You do everything when you're small - recruiting, promoting, selling, driving."
"It was truly out of a necessity when we first began."
"A mass extinction event for startups is underway."
"The skill set and energy associated with startup or with winning an actual interaction is different from maintaining something that is coherent."
"We get so used to seeing huge numbers in startups that I don't think we fully realize how absolutely ridiculous it is to build a billion dollar company from zero in a few years."
"Maybe Signature Valley Bank was meant to go under because massively unprofitable startups don't deserve to survive in a recession."
"It's a lot of work and in the beginning, it really doesn't pay much at all."
"You can't have a new project coming on the scene already like that."
"There is no work-life balance when you start having a profitable company. It is just [__] working."
"You've gotta say I'm swearing off of debt for startup and I'm swearing off of debt for survival."
"Lucid and Rivian are out there, but there's a lot of risk of them failing altogether."
"That's one of the reasons why we're attempting to build it from the ground up."
"The biggest fear a lot of people have with business is not knowing how to get started."
"I did not start Rachel's English at all with an idea of what it would be, like, in no way, and I'm still not sure what it will be."
"We make our first one, this is our first correction."
"Last thing you want to do is start a business broke."
"The beginning can be a little tough, but you absolutely will get there."
"Most things, when they start out, don't make a lot of sense, but as long as you adapt quickly, then you can make the company work."
"Don't quit your job if you're just starting out in botting."
"It's always a bumpy ride trying to watch something grow from its inception."
"Lemonade has not yet built a tech stack in life insurance."
"So the biggest barrier of entry with this business is the financial investment required to get started."
"Any business that you start, you're not going to make money in the beginning and you're going to be in the red for a while until you start making money."
"If you buy more than you can chew, you will rob yourself of all of the fun of creating your own business in the beginning."
"The absence of past information is a major roadblock for startups."
"Most startups die of indigestion, not of starvation."
"Fundraising is time that takes away from you building your business."
"Customers will only tolerate excellence, even from a five-person startup."
"Building a startup is one of the hardest things you'll ever do."
"The number one problem that we see with startups that have gone through this product market fit stage is that they did not spend enough time meeting with customers before they built the product."
"The road to Unicorn Land is littered with startups that sparkled brightly for a moment then faded."
"Really worrying about whether the startup company is gonna still be in business a week from now is an important thing to be thinking about."
"Most startups fail, but most of those failures could have been prevented."
"Being a scrappy startup, we had to get our hands dirty, but it was well worth it."
"The biggest source of waste in startup is building something that nobody wants."