An entrepreneur, whether man or woman, has to be willing to take help, whether financial or technical, to grow his or her business.
I’m thrilled to share the story of my journey in building Eventbrite and what I’ve learned along the way as a working mother and entrepreneur.
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
The cool thing about a start-up – this is sort of the entrepreneur side of me – is that you can make it grow as much as you can. Or you can squander the talent as much as you want. But it’s up to you.
I am proud to offer my endorsement of Donald J. Trump for President of the United States. He is a successful executive and entrepreneur, a wonderful father, and a man who I believe can lead our country to greatness again.
I’ve been an entrepreneur for the past 12 years, since I graduated from Yale undergrad with a degree in Physics and Philosophy, and realized I had no actual marketable job skills.
When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.
I advise all of the entrepreneurs that I know to attend at least one entrepreneurship event every week. The worst thing an entrepreneur can do is to confine his or herself to a cubby hole.
I’d rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.
Being a social entrepreneur is a balancing act between growing and sustaining a business while also growing the company’s ability to give back.
As a Main Street entrepreneur, I believe in free trade.
The ability to forget is a prerequisite for an entrepreneur.
Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and then thriving with an ongoing concern. Through choice, predilection, lack of education, impatience, or other causes, the entrepreneur lives, in a way, outside the mainstream.
I’m an entrepreneur, so I’ve got to be ruthless about ‘me’ time if I want to have any left to myself! I make myself leave the office by 8 or 9 P.M. most nights, even if I do curl up with my laptop and a glass of wine at home to get through email.
I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last… Whether it’s tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.
I don’t want to be known as just an actress. I want to be known as an entertainer and entrepreneur.
I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.
When I took the entrepreneurship class at Stanford, the first lecture was about an entrepreneur and his personality. They described it as being different than a businessman, who is an overall scientific manager.
I’m definitely a serial entrepreneur and a serial snacker. And when it comes to snacks, I’m more of a salty snacker, though I’ve been known to have a craving for sweets from time to time.
My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
For an entrepreneur who has spent his entire career creating jobs, I can assure you that leaving my business to help President Trump confirm conservative judges is well worth my decision to run for office and a great use of the Senate’s time, given how dysfunctional Washington can be.
My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to ‘Roc-A-Wear’. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of ‘Roc-A-Fella’ records, which lead to Def Jam.
No first-time entrepreneur has the business network of contacts needed to succeed. An incubator should be well integrated into the local business community and have a steady source of contacts and introductions.
I always yearned to explore the entrepreneur in me.
I told myself, ‘I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.’
There’s no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there’s something about Silicon Valley.
People are recognizing that I am an entrepreneur and do more than be on a reality TV show.
If you’re an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.
You must, as an entrepreneur – if that’s your position – be doing things that really move the needle.
I think that initial independence is very important; that’s what being an entrepreneur is all about.
The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.
It’s good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.
It doesn’t matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you’re an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.
I want to be happy. I realized that being happy isn’t necessarily about getting there, it’s how you get there. It almost sounds like a cliche, but every entrepreneur I’ve talked to – every good entrepreneur – really enjoys the ‘how you get here.’
I think I’m very much an entrepreneur, but I know I have the ability to start a company in a lot of ways than other people who are more qualified because I have this existing brand as an actress.
You have to live in Silicon Valley and hear the horror stories. You go and hang out at the cafes, and you meet entrepreneur after entrepreneur who’s struggling, basically – who’s had a visa problem who wants to start a company, but they can’t start companies.
As an entrepreneur, you can have an instinct, and your instinct is right, but your idea you’re substantiating that into is wrong, and the world is not ready for it.
Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.
No entrepreneur ever publicly admits to bribing, but few dare to openly claim they don’t, either.
Ethereum is enabling a new form of financing in ICOs that is like a massive gravitational pull – dragging every entrepreneur with a sense for opportunity into its blackhole-level gravity.
There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There’s an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.
At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.
The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience.
Look, I’m an entrepreneur, I want to create things, I’m a builder. I don’t want handouts. If I didn’t play football I’d be doing something else. That’s me. I don’t want to be held back. I want to go forward. I want to better myself.
Growing up in a family of doctors, I wanted to be a brain surgeon for a while. But ultimately, I get most excited about creating things, which is why I decided to become an entrepreneur.
An entrepreneur will do whatever they have to do to make sure things get done. Our coaches will be that way; our players will be that way. Just do what it takes.
The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.
How I see my career is very much as an entrepreneur in the field of philanthropy.
I’m a mom. I’m a wife. I’m an actress. I’m an executive producer. I’m an author. I’m an entrepreneur, and I’m a sister and a best friend.
A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it’s become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It’s a tool for me; when you’re an entrepreneur, and you’re pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.
We listen to the entrepreneur. We try to have a fine tuning fork to understand what they are saying and whether that makes sense and know it when we see it. We don’t try to do too much predicting.
I think I became an entrepreneur because I have my way of doing business… to do that, you have to have your own company. But if you have your own company, you’re an outsider in the Japanese business world. It’s difficult. But that’s life.
‘Entrepreneur’ is a French word.
I’m not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says ‘I really want to be an entrepreneur’ but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: ‘This person is totally aimless.’
Giving customers and prospects a glimpse into the entrepreneur’s life and mindset can allow them to cultivate a deeper relationship with customers separately from the brand.
I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.
You don’t start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it. You become an entrepreneur, and you create a company to solve a real problem. And by real problem, I mean a problem that is going to exist down the line.
I’m a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
