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Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.
Entrepreneurs go through real problems and come up with real solutions. It's not fake. You can do all the right things and still lose. You can do all the wrong things and still will.
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.
Both my parents were entrepreneurs and built a nice leisure business. But money was tight when I was growing up.
Florence Nightingale. She is one of the most dynamic social entrepreneurs in history.
I try to grow my management team as entrepreneurs, make the structure decentralized.
Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.
I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
At the end of the day, if you want to create more IP and more invention, you need to connect between research and entrepreneurs. People who are going to take a risk.
I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.
We look for companies that are unlike anything we've ever seen before, with a bold vision to change the world and run by passionate entrepreneurs who get you jumping out of your seat.
There will always be a capital shortage from the perspective of entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.
An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.
Successful entrepreneurs always give 100% of their efforts to everything they do.
Once we started making investments, we realized the same service we provided to artists was applicable to entrepreneurs as well.
I hope more cities engage with immigrant entrepreneurs the way St. Louis has - it's a great model.
As entrepreneurs, we sometimes do not understand the complexities of running a government.
At Sequoia, upwards of a hundred entrepreneurs a week present, and if we're lucky, maybe a dozen of them are focusing on the enterprise.
Entrepreneurs, by disposition, are built to think big. When a role no longer affords those opportunities, it might be best to leave it in capable hands and move on.
I really believe that if capital doesn't come to the entrepreneurs, the entrepreneurs have no choice but to go to the capital.
More entrepreneurs are looking to come back to start businesses, and that is where SBA is perfectly positioned to be helping more people to realize their dreams.
Not many venture firms have people whose job is to read academic research - on startups, ventures, and entrepreneurs - and gather knowledge from that.
What is great about entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs create the tangible from the intangible.
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.
The idea of investing in entrepreneurs who are building things from scratch, where I can participate in their dream, was very, very exciting to me.
Far from doing what it can to ensure that the companies and entrepreneurs of tomorrow are European, the E.U. actively stifles innovation.
I've always been very passionate about investing time in and sharing my expertise with other entrepreneurs.
I really have become very interested at working with and helping entrepreneurs at the early stages of their growth.
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.
Many entrepreneurs think that cash is the ultimate solution to all of their problems: the one thing standing between them and their dreams.
Bottom line: government shouldn't be a bottleneck for entrepreneurs looking to design a better mousetrap.
McDonalds. Apple. Starbucks. They were all small businesses, owned by entrepreneurs and people with vision.
For significant job creation to occur, prospective entrepreneurs and current business owners must not fear the future or be under assault from their own government in the present.
Entrepreneurs are not that special. If you are one, stop drinking the Kool Aid, and if you aren't, definitely don't drink it.
At Venture for ,we've worked with hundreds of aspiring young entrepreneurs who want to build businesses and change things for the better.
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.
Entrepreneurs are moving from a world of problem-solving to a world of problem-finding. The very best ones are able to uncover problems people didn't realize that they had.
Venture-backed startups with billion dollar market caps are called 'unicorns' because they are supposed to be rare mythical creatures that few entrepreneurs will ever ride.
There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.
Inexperienced entrepreneurs often want to keep their plans secret, but this is never how I've seen any of the great companies get built.
There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.
Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.
While entrepreneurs spend a lot of effort trying to avoid failure, sometimes the lessons one learns from those missteps can be invaluable.
I would love to raise a fund or get some awesome empowered women together and put together an advisory board to get behind female entrepreneurs.
I never said I enjoy anything about using the Internet. I enjoy helping the entrepreneurs who are building this thing that I don't necessarily like or use.
As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.
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.