In the startup world, 'not working' is normal.

A hardware startup with no funding is a risky venture.

Stay away from family when you are working on a startup.

The reality of a startup is you have failures very often.

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

I don't know a startup that hasn't been through tough times.

When you get involved in a startup, you have to be passionate.

Failure will happen. It's a normal part of the startup process.

Campaigns are crazy things. They're half startup, half enterprise.

Startup investing is one of my things, but it is not my everything.

St. Louis has a great startup scene and a vibrant business community.

If you asked would I have done a startup in India, the answer is yes.

I wish I'd known more about how to build a startup when I was younger.

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

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

It's a fight to get anyone other than your mom to care about your startup.

One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies.

I think entrepreneurs should demand transparency for startup accelerators.

I believe a board in a small startup company should never vote on anything.

I would never be able to work on a photo-sharing app or 'Internet startup XYZ.'

Whether by design or circumstance, every startup will eventually get disrupted.

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

Everybody should do at least one startup sometime in life. It's such an amazing ride.

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

Berlin is well on its way to becoming one of the most vibrant startup hubs in the world.

It's fairly common knowledge that a startup can't execute on two products simultaneously.

Unlike many other startup processes, Customer Development is deep, detailed, and rigorous.

If you aren't committed to diversity of thought, you have no business launching a startup.

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

A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.

I think my gift lies in being a startup entrepreneur and creating environments and experiences.

I think the issues around diversity of all kinds are really a huge problem in the startup world.

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

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

Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.

A startup, to a some degree, is a set of those challenges of, 'If you don't solve this, you're dead.'

There are many successful startup funders who are looking for ways to make a difference in the world.

The two big startup killers are when there's just no market for what you are doing, and team problems.

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

Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.

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

In a web/mobile startup, coding is not an outsourced activity. It's an integral part of the company's DNA.

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

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

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

In 2016, you no longer have to be in Silicon Valley to launch a successful startup. Colorado is home to many.

Globalisation for a startup is exciting; you have to learn so fast about the different cultures of the world.

I am retiring from startup investing. It's hard to leave all this behind right when things are going so well.

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

One of the top causes of startup death - right after cofounder problems - is building something no one wants.

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