People forget we’ve got awesome entrepreneurs all over the country, especially in the North East.
Bitcoin is absolutely the Wild West of finance, and thank goodness. It represents a whole legion of adventurers and entrepreneurs, of risk takers, inventors, and problem solvers. It is the frontier. Huge amounts of wealth will be created and destroyed as this new landscape is mapped out.
I’m saying there’s plenty of money out there for great consumer entrepreneurs with great consumer products attacking really big markets.
I’ve been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.
Entrepreneurs – both women and men – need equal and fair access to finance – to create new businesses, to reach to new markets, and to adapt to climate change.
I would tell all women entrepreneurs to stay focussed and positive. One just needs to keep moving without looking back.
Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs and Russell Simmons have made millions from their clothing lines.
It’s tough for entrepreneurs when they’re small to get good prices on stuff.
As entrepreneurs, we sometimes do not understand the complexities of running a government.
The thing that really sticks – and when you talk to entrepreneurs, they say the same – is just thinking about the next day, the next week.
I started angel investing because I like hanging out with entrepreneurs.
On the consumer level, the products developed by entrepreneurs help to provide more and better options that make life easier and more enjoyable in the everyday lives of the public.
I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.
I like most of the venture capitalists I know; they’re smart, well-intended guys who genuinely enjoy helping entrepreneurs succeed. And I love venture capital and investment capital of all categories – its economic impact is proven. The more of it the better.
To not run a venture into the ground, entrepreneurs need to learn what it takes to succeed.
The most important thing that we entrepreneurs have is our human capital. If we exhaust it, we make bad decisions.
Benefits of demonetisation need to percolate down to entrepreneurs and their enterprises, many of which are outside the ambit of formal economy.
My family were all entrepreneurs, including my parents and grandparents.
By helping New Yorkers turn their greatest expense – their home – into an asset, Airbnb is a vehicle that artists, entrepreneurs, and innovators can use to earn extra money to pursue their passion.
As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It’s cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I’m not one of those people.
Most entrepreneurs think capital is the biggest problem they have – but it’s not. You can have all the capital you want, but if the market fit and ability to adjust are not present, your startup will likely not succeed.
The best entrepreneurs I’ve ever met are all good communicators. It’s perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.
It’s wonderful when you pair entrepreneurs together because they can share experiences and in some ways push each other to build better products going forward.
VCs are used to being the gatekeepers of capital. There’s this old narrative of entrepreneurs going hat in hand begging VCs for money. That absolutely is not the world we’re in anymore.
I think in general, people who aren’t themselves entrepreneurs are often more risk averse. And I think you see this dynamic a lot with entrepreneurial people who lead a company, which is that they hire people who complement them.
Most successful entrepreneurs share their knowledge as a way of giving back. They do not demand compensation. Those who do are usually trying to take advantage of you.
Entrepreneurs can benefit a lot from the right help and advice, and you can avoid costly mistakes. You can get incredible leverage in hiring people who wouldn’t even talk to you if you have the right help. An investor isn’t about money – it’s about the help and advice you can get.
Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs – and more growth.
California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.
When you build relationships with entrepreneurs, they’re not trying to optimize on price.
The most incredible businesses are started by entrepreneurs who relentlessly pursue their passion, but passion works best with a thoughtful, ambitious-yet-grounded business plan.
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don’t necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
Drew and I have always been very analytical at looking at the business opportunities. We’re entrepreneurs through and through.
The main thing to know about me is that I’m a champion of entrepreneurs and the startups they build. They are my rock stars. If in doubt, I side with them, and that’s clear from my writing.
The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.
I feel like a lot of entrepreneurs hear all this talk about profitability and realize they need to lower their burn. So, they just start chopping off perks and people.
Entrepreneurs typically have an instinct for smelling opportunity, but that same killer instinct can quickly turn to weakness when it becomes a distraction from primary goals.
I would say all power to women entrepreneurs out there.
With a lot of young entrepreneurs, it always start rotten, but then something good happens – but do you keep it good?
There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues whose work confirms, amplifies, and stretches my own thinking.
There’s one thing I’ve learned about entrepreneurs’ business plans. Every one is wrong.
Most small-business owners have no financial education when they started. They weren’t trained to be entrepreneurs.
The issue of access to growth capital is common to all entrepreneurs. Any entrepreneur who can demonstrate a credible business model and plan would be able to access to capital.
Betting against entrepreneurs who are changing the world has never been a profitable endeavor.
Farmers the world over, in dealing with costs, returns and risks, are calculating economic agents. Within their small, individual, allocative domain, they are fine-tuning entrepreneurs, tuning so subtly that many experts fail to recognize how efficient they are.
We’re pretty broad as investors. Our thesis is work with great entrepreneurs that believe they can change the world.
I think people are hungry for new ideas and leadership in the world of poverty alleviation. Most development programs are started and led by people with Ph.Ds in economics or policy. Samasource is part of a cadre of younger organizations headed by entrepreneurs from non-traditional backgrounds.
Entrepreneurs should never work with big corporations.
Women are doing wonders as entrepreneurs.
Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.
I don’t understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don’t get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.
High-speed Internet access, or broadband, is giving entrepreneurs anywhere an unprecedented chance to disrupt entire industries and transform our country.
One of the biggest reasons entrepreneurs don’t succeed is because they have too many chiefs. You’ve got to bring in the right people to make the right decisions.
Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn’t be entrepreneurs see the standard process they need to go through to get the thing they want or need then decide if they want to go through that process.
An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That’s one of the little-known facts.
One of the rookie mistakes first-time entrepreneurs often make is to be too guarded about their idea – in fact, many will actually spend their first $25,000 on patent lawyers without ever fully vetting their product.
It’s easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate.
