Steve Blank Quotes

If you're positioned to start your own organization, that's great - but rare.

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

I have this passion for building things, so I always wanted to build a startup. I always wanted to start my own company.

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

When I started my hotel company, Joie de Vivre, at the age of 26, I saw this venture as my ticket to freedom.

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'

Is there anyone out there who is the next Steve Jobs? I think Jeff Bezos is pretty close. He is very smart. He is extremely creative. He has completely reinvented the way in which commerce is done online.

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing.

I'm a creature of startups. For example, I don't want government interference in the startup ecosystem.

I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

I'm just more excited about helping new entrepreneurs create the next Facebook or Google.

I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked.

I want to create an environment where I can create technology, get it into the hands of someone to market it, and move on to other technologies so I can keep innovating. I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.

You know what? Starting a car company is risky.