Startup Quotes Quotes

“As a startup entrepreneur, you need to know who your ideal customer is. Your new business will likely fail before it starts if you don’t know your ideal customer. And honestly, if you don’t know your ideal customer, there’s no purpose for the business to even exist anyway.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Its going to be a rocky relationship you are going to have with your business, don’t marry it if you don’t love it! Its going to be rough sometimes, but navigating through the lows allows you to create something beautiful!”
― Jenaitre Farquharson

“The overall data shows that more than twice the money flows into venture capital from LPs than comes back to them in a given year.
I wanted to hold onto something positive from this industry—after all, I’ve met a few brilliant people in it—but looking at the data, it’s hard, if not impossible.
In a Freudian sense, it's worth remembering that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar—not everything has a deeper psychological meaning.
VCs have made it look like magic, but the illusion disappears once you turn on the lights.
At its core, venture capital isn’t as much a unique asset class as it is a troubled one. The industry survives by injecting more and more capital each year, while leaving the majority of limited partners stuck at the losing end of a pay-your-bid auction.”
― Victoria Silchenko, Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain

“Don’t be afraid to begin; be afraid of never starting at all.”
― Marion Bekoe

“When there is a will, there is a way”
― Sandeep Aggarwal

“Working in a newly built startup
is like going to do skydiving
with a parachute bag
you do not know if
it will open at the right time.”
― Saurav Banerjee

“Only myopics judge people, relationships, businesses with short term lens. Any startup or public company that survived the dot com bust and 9/11 came out bigger than anyone imagined. If India wants an ecosystem like USA or China, new age companies need nurturing & patience vs. criticism or outcast.”
― Sandeep Aggarwal

“A true entrepreneur is not concerned with valuation or traction, but rather with following their purpose, innovating, and making a positive contribution to the world.”
― Abhysheq Shukla, The Reflection "Success or Stress" Choose Wisely

“Purpose is what drives entrepreneurship, not valuation or traction.”
― Abhysheq Shukla, Crosspaths Multitude to Success

“It's all about the journey from curiosity to confidence.”
― Jigisha Dave

“AI pilots are easy, but scaling them to get value is hard”
― Ashok Veda

“Guiding Principle of Startup Journey is RAPO -
Responsible, Accountable, Punctual and Open to Ideas”
― Chintha Sai Bhargav Reddy

“Stop waiting for the perfect moment or the perfect plan. Progress begins with action, no matter how small.”
― Jen Alvares

“Cosgn co-signs your startup journey, empowering you to grow and pay it forward.”
― Marion Bekoe

“Before you start, don’t overthink just do it.”
― Marion Bekoe

“I am not saying that VCs are despicably evil (that would be investment bankers), but you would be better spending more time on building your business than building and polishing the pitch deck.”
― Victoria Silchenko, Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain

“Yes, capital is the oxygen in the life of a startup. But then again, acquiring capital is not the purpose of your startup—just as breathing oxygen is not the purpose of human life. It’s almost comical how we chase investors, running around as if we’re in a game of musical chairs.”
― Victoria Silchenko, Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain

“Anyone who is paying attention can see that entrepreneurship is slowly vanishing, making way for mega-employers in our platform-oriented economy—where success is dictated by network effects and timely access to capital to fuel a never-ending acquisition spree. A process that current antitrust laws have failed to prevent entirely.”
― Victoria Silchenko, Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain

“In our new economy, where tech behemoths rule, reality is being virtualized, and everything is on track to have a paired digital twin, how do we inspire new founders to become the human dynamos capable of driving meaningful innovation—rather than just churning out useless apps and digital toys or, worse, creating creepy technologies designed solely to intrude on and control our lives?
What will it take to return to the noble idea of "entrepreneurial capitalism"—the kind fueled by bold, go-getting minds like Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Nikola Tesla (an immigrant from Serbia), and Andrew Carnegie (an immigrant from Scotland)?”
― Victoria Silchenko, Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain

“Startups don’t fail because of bad ideas. They fail because of perfectly good egos.”
― Arpan Banerjee, The Unicorn Hunter's Handbook

“I built the solution I needed when I started.”
― Marion Bekoe

“You don’t need another success story to be motivated. Take action.”
― Marion Bekoe

“Vision sparks belief; execution turns it into proof.”
― Marion Bekoe

“To change your perspective, you must choose to change the position from which you see your business.”
― Jennifer Fortney

“You don’t need the perfect plan. You need the courage to start the imperfect one.”
― Marion Bekoe

“No one needs the perfect plan, only the courage to start the imperfect one.”
― Marion Bekoe

“Trust is the real currency in business. Earn it, keep it, and never break it.”
― Marion Bekoe

“Lead with action, not talk. And if action is not possible yet, lead with a plan before you lead with words.”
― Marion Bekoe

“We don’t join success stories. We start them.”
― Marion Bekoe

“You do not need permission to start. Start anyway.”
― Marion Bekoe