Steve Blank Quotes

I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

The N.Y.C. tech scene is vibrant, and Betabeat will be a great vehicle to cover it in depth.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.

After graduating in International Relations in 2011, I turned down safe, corporate job offers and instead accepted a position at an 'incubator' in L.A. - a tech word for a team of people who are funded by investors to create apps. I knew the future was digital and that I had to take a risk.

Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.

Silicon Valley has been a technology capital like New York is a financial capital.

Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.

Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.

For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.

My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.

I have always been very tech-focused, which you may almost say is the traditional CEO in Silicon Valley.

Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.

Jeremy Stoppelman started Yelp. Max Levchin started Slide. I started LinkedIn. It was a mininova explosion of folks jumping out to doing other entrepreneurial activities.

It would be idiotic to position ourselves against Silicon Valley.

I see a lot of opportunity in Internet-related start-ups, and second is the solar business.

Over the long term, there will be many more billion-dollar technology companies than there are today.

The best training ground in the world is Silicon Valley and the tech space.

By the beginning of the 21st century, entrepreneurs, led by Web and mobile startups, began to seek and develop their own management tools.

There's no more silicon in Silicon Valley. It's all iPhone apps.

I wouldn't say that I know a lot about 'Silicon Valley'. I live in Boston, for one thing. And I don't live and breathe this stuff the way most of the guys out there do.

We're creating this new breed of techies who are going to be the ones starting the tech companies of the future.

I love Silicon Valley, but there is a dominant voice of, 'Tech is cool. Tech is geeky. Tech is a guy with a hoodie.'

There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance and start your business.