By the beginning of the 21st century, entrepreneurs, led by Web and mobile startups, began to seek and develop their own management tools.
College works on the factory model and is, in many ways, not suited to training entrepreneurs. You put in a student, and out comes a scholar.
At Microsoft, we know first-hand how passionate entrepreneurs can change the world. We believe that technology can empower everyone to achieve more.
One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don’t know that something can’t be done. So they try something that’s so audacious and usually end up pulling it off.
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
Entrepreneurs and innovators across the country are developing and deploying new data-powered IT tools to help clinicians succeed at delivering better care at lower cost.
In my job, as head of the International Trade Centre, I have the privilege to meet entrepreneurs from across the world almost on a daily basis.
Charles Koch and David Koch, co-owners of Koch Industries, are U.S. citizens, taxpayers, entrepreneurs and employers.
From Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos to Google and Facebook, many of America’s greatest entrepreneurs, musicians, movie directors and novelists are world beaters.
I like to get attention for the things I think are important. And I think it is important that entrepreneurs – especially young ones – not be abused.
I don’t know another way to try to deal with income inequality than actually having entrepreneurs and inventors creating the kind of jobs that allow your residents to be successful and provide for their families.
We started Vector with the goal of creating a development platform that would foster and bolster the micro space innovations currently underway and bring the promise of space-based technologies to a much larger pool of entrepreneurs who don’t need to be space experts.
What most entrepreneurs don’t understand is that it isn’t the economy that bursts a bubble, but investor psychology.
I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
I hear entrepreneurs use the word ‘disruption’ on a daily basis and continuously hear the cliche change the world.
Increasingly, I’m inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.
I’ve felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.
Indian-Americans are physicians, engineers, CEOs, professors, teachers, entrepreneurs. They are a vital part of the United States’ economic and social fabric. Because of this long history, the bonds among our people and our cultures will remain strong.
Successful musicians are entrepreneurs – they work hard, way beyond 9 to 5.
I am bowled over by the massive number of remarkable people who face down the fact that no, they are not going to be film directors, famous artists, or billionaire entrepreneurs and still come out the other side as cheerful, decent, gracious human beings.
Cryptocurrencies are not evil and are not for money launderers and scammers. They are for entrepreneurs, technologists, change-the-world dreamers, and anyone who believes they can (and will) enable new business models, new types of organizations, and new ways to service consumers and businesses alike.
In New Hampshire, we know that small businesses and entrepreneurs are the engines of economic growth in the 21st-century economy, and our state has long been defined by the entrepreneurial spirit of our people.
At President Obama’s direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America’s innovators and entrepreneurs to build a green energy economy.
ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
Like most entrepreneurs, getting motivated to work has never been a problem for me; focus comes through delegating tasks to the best people you can find.
What is great about entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs create the tangible from the intangible.
There’s a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They’re completely fearless.
There has to be more pressure on entrepreneurs, when they create great value, to give back. I always bank on an entrepreneur to give back and get great results versus giving that same money to the government.
Because Techstars is an intensely productive three-month program in which product development and iteration are primary goals, we’re constantly looking to streamline our program to help entrepreneurs avoid recurring obstacles.
In order to attract and retain new businesses in rural and economically depressed regions of Virginia, we need to provide competitive incentives to entrepreneurs and business owners.
A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far – experienced father.
Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.
In Western capitalism circa 2013, fear that the market economy has become dysfunctional is not limited to a few entrepreneurs in Boulder. It is being publicly expressed, with increasing frequency, by some of the people who occupy the commanding heights of the global economy.
Most entrepreneurs, when they become successful, they turn into idiots… It’s the same thing with rockstars and entrepreneurs: big money and big egos.
Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn’t set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves.
I am a natural optimist, as entrepreneurs tend to be.
The crypto market has set the bar shockingly low for entrepreneurs to raise money, and this is dangerous for everyone involved.
Once we started making investments, we realized the same service we provided to artists was applicable to entrepreneurs as well.
I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wanted to inspire them to go much bigger, bolder and more significant than that.
Many entrepreneurs have shifted their focus to pursuing VC funding as a primary strategic priority instead of concentrating on generating value for their users. This is worrisome because raising capital alone is misleading as a benchmark for success.
Most people who go into business for themselves and, therefore, believe they are entrepreneurs, are doomed to struggle because they don’t have a true Entrepreneurial Perspective. They have a Technician’s Perspective.
Networking is all about connecting with people. But then again, isn’t that what life is about? The more time you can find to get out of the office and build true friendships, the farther your startup will go. Entrepreneurs need to remember to spend as much time working on their business as they do in their business.
I’ve always been very passionate about investing time in and sharing my expertise with other entrepreneurs.
A majority of my blind students at the International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs in Trivandrum, India, a branch of Braille Without Borders, came from the developing world: Madagascar, Colombia, Tibet, Liberia, Ghana, Kenya, Nepal and India.
I hope more cities engage with immigrant entrepreneurs the way St. Louis has – it’s a great model.
Like many entrepreneurs, I never have two days that are alike. One thing that’s consistent is I wake up early, around 4:30 A.M. It’s my most productive time of day because I can think and work uninterrupted.
The problem isn’t that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs.
I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
Successful entrepreneurs are pretty methodical about the problem they’re trying to solve.
My role is to try to remove the impediments to entrepreneurs’ chance to succeed. It’s about improving the business climate to give people a better chance of succeeding.
Entrepreneurs do not try and create new types of smartphone technologies now because they know it’s pointless: They’re going to get sued almost immediately.
I look up to entrepreneurs who command respect and attention for daring to think out of the box and act accordingly.
I really believe that if capital doesn’t come to the entrepreneurs, the entrepreneurs have no choice but to go to the capital.
As entrepreneurs, we already know our most valuable asset is time, but not every entrepreneur knows how to properly use that time.
The government does not and cannot create jobs. Only entrepreneurs do.
I belong to the breed of first-generation entrepreneurs who have basically created our enterprises with very frugal resources.
By becoming an MBE, I hope it helps raise the profile of our sector and what a thriving industry it is. I also hope it inspires others entrepreneurs in craft to believe, innovate and put our industry firmly on the map.
