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Like any startup in hyper-growth mode, growth often brings change, and with it, evolution in the executive team.
There are too many ways that a startup gig can go sideways. If the startup won't agree to hefty severance, pass.
A startup is a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed.
It turns out that one of the biggest drivers of investors are both successful and non-successful startup founders.
Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.
Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted.
My most radical shift was leaving Intel and joining Google, a small startup at the time, even though I was pregnant.
I've had a very good stretch with startup investing, and I think it's very important to know when to hold your chips.
If you're a small startup considering selling your company, there's definitely far worse places to work than Facebook.
Nvidia's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, is an engineer and a chip designer. He cofounded Nvidia and still runs it like a startup.
Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself.
For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.
I have this passion for building things, so I always wanted to build a startup. I always wanted to start my own company.
A new DAO is like a startup. It requires a product/market fit, business model realization, and a lot of users/customers.
San Francisco is a great startup community that you shouldn't even try to model yourself after because it's just special.
If you're a digital startup, building and highlighting your social proof is the best way for new users to learn about you.
A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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.
If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft is about.
Creating the right advisory board for your startup can be the single most important step you take in building a new business.
The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.
I'm sure that the ideas being incubated at places like Startup Village today will form the core of the technologies of tomorrow.
Face-to-face customer feedback refines or validates every component of the startup's business model, not just the product itself.
Not all startups are alike. One of the key ways they differ is in the relationship between a startup's new product and its market.
If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup, then you are in a very precarious and difficult position.
Customer Development changes almost every aspect of startup behavior, performance, metrics, and, as often as not, success potential.
There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.
If one engineer at a startup tries Slack and says, 'I hate it. I am not going to use this,' that's it for us. We won't get evaluated.
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.
In an era of endless innovation and constant disruption, what is any company really worth? How does a startup determine its valuation?
Being in a band is very much like a startup. You start in a garage. You hope to get interest from investors, like a major record label.
In a startup, there have to be challenges. Otherwise, someone else would have done it already. And that's almost the most exciting part.
The challenge in a startup is you hit a lot of turbulence, and you want people who understand that it's just turbulence and not a crisis.
Each industry in a region should develop a playbook that expands and details the strategy and tactics of how to build a scalable startup.
What's crucial is to never get stuck. Making hard decisions is such an important part of being a startup in order to keep moving forward.
If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective way to drive change in the federal government.
The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.
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.
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.
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.
The Columbia Startup Lab is a visible symbol of how the university is making entrepreneurship an integral part of all colleges at the university.
ICOs cannot escape startup evolution characteristics. This means that their growth will be hard fought, hard earned, and hardly a walk in the park.
One of the most fun and interesting things about YC is that we are kind of a startup ourselves. We are constantly changing and evolving what we do.
What always drove me was my curiosity. That's what made me join Booking and not be afraid to leave a very successful job and then go into a startup.
Startupfest is a very positive conference. I think a lot of it has to do with how different culturally it is from other startup or tech conferences.
I completely believe in the lean startup and minimum viable product; I just I think that people are setting the threshold for minimum viable too low.
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.
I separate the world of startup communities into two constituencies - leaders and feeders. The leaders are entrepreneurs and the feeders everyone else.
A startup is not just about the idea: it's about testing and then implementing the idea. A founding team without these skills is likely dead on arrival.