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Finding entrepreneurs from diverse and international backgrounds is a top priority for us at Y Combinator.
I've always been very passionate about investing time in and sharing my expertise with other entrepreneurs.
McDonalds. Apple. Starbucks. They were all small businesses, owned by entrepreneurs and people with vision.
The greatest job creation is driven by entrepreneurs and young businesses, so they merit special attention.
I am a big advocate of female entrepreneurs. I do what I can to advise and help them along in their careers.
I'm a supporter of female entrepreneurs. I don't feel like a victim, and I try to not think of myself as one.
An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.
Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.
Until we know how many women own businesses, we may under-invest in them as entrepreneurs and economic drivers.
Both my parents were entrepreneurs and built a nice leisure business. But money was tight when I was growing up.
One reason why entrepreneurs are admired is that they often take on a degree of risk in launching a new business.
I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words.
I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.
Poor governance affects us all - entrepreneurs, homemakers, farmers, labourers, whatever identities we might have.
I hear entrepreneurs use the word 'disruption' on a daily basis and continuously hear the cliche change the world.
The most important thing that we entrepreneurs have is our human capital. If we exhaust it, we make bad decisions.
What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
Most small-business owners have no financial education when they started. They weren't trained to be entrepreneurs.
Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
I really have become very interested at working with and helping entrepreneurs at the early stages of their growth.
The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.
We're pretty broad as investors. Our thesis is work with great entrepreneurs that believe they can change the world.
What most entrepreneurs don't understand is that it isn't the economy that bursts a bubble, but investor psychology.
Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.
Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.
Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.
With a lot of young entrepreneurs, it always start rotten, but then something good happens - but do you keep it good?
Charles Koch and David Koch, co-owners of Koch Industries, are U.S. citizens, taxpayers, entrepreneurs and employers.
Mr. Icahn will be a leader in helping American entrepreneurs shed job-killing regulations that stifle economic growth.
Entrepreneurs don't believe the future is predictable - but they do believe that they can create the future themselves.
I would tell all women entrepreneurs to stay focussed and positive. One just needs to keep moving without looking back.
A common mistake among new entrepreneurs who have raised large rounds is that they have essentially infinite resources.
But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.
By using locally manufactured products, you will be able to help the small entrepreneurs in your area to a great extent.
I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
I often say to entrepreneurs, 'If Lehman Brothers were Lehman Brothers & Sisters, it wouldn't have gone into bankruptcy.'
We need to open up private sector markets. We need to empower small business people, working Georgians, and entrepreneurs.
In the Valley, what's happened is you have entrepreneurs that just want to fill a hole in the market and have a rich exit.
The best programmers and internet entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area. Don't kid yourself about that, not even for a second.
Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories.
Chinese entrepreneurs have to implement their work under the leadership of the Party and the government - it is very clear.
Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.
I love helping entrepreneurs. It's something I really have fun doing. It's like planting a little seed and watching it grow.
We're really willing to see more and more U.S. entrepreneurs conducting investments in Turkey. I'm optimistic for the future.
We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.
Entrepreneurs are not that special. If you are one, stop drinking the Kool Aid, and if you aren't, definitely don't drink it.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.