Kevin Harrington Quotes

Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.

I love working with really early stage startups where the outcome is still in doubt. Maybe they'll go on to greatness, or maybe they'll never get off the runway at all.

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

I do think there are more and more entrepreneurs all the time that think big. Those are the people we should be finding and funding. Most of them will fail, but the ones who succeed will change the world, and that is progress.

Without disruptions, startups can't survive.

My attitude is there are at least hundreds of interesting startups that are going to get going in every year.

Investors like to invest based on traction, so it's always better to raise money when you've got more traction than less.

I'm in favour of entrepreneurial, risk-taking businesses that create great products and services.

Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.

In a startup, in the early days, it can be hard to explain what you do.

I want to create something like Sony. Not in terms of manufacturing products but creating something that is innovative, makes money, improves peoples' lives.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas.

It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.

Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.

Technology ventures can succeed with very little investment, unlike many other industries. A lot of the big Internet players like Google or Yahoo were started by a couple of guys with computers. Microsoft was started in Bill Gates' garage.

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.

There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.

Taking a great new idea with an entrepreneurial team that wants to create something significant and trying to build a real company is what is interesting.

For decades, technology entrepreneurship has been revered, and people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk were heroes.

There's no better place in the world for technology start-ups than Silicon Valley; there's such an incredible well of talent and capital and resources. The whole system is set up to foster the creation of new companies.

The phrase 'change the world' is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business plans as freely as talk of 'early-stage investing' and 'beta tests.'

All the biggest companies are based on a founder who had a need, hacked it together, and said, 'Hey, other people might want this.'

A startup, to a some degree, is a set of those challenges of, 'If you don't solve this, you're dead.'

I ran a profitable boostrapped company for five years, then raised $40 million from Andreessen Horowitz.