Ananya Birla Quotes

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

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

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

Anytime is a good time to start a company.

I had always wanted to start a company, ever since I was very young.

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

The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.

From the time I was a kid, I was always interested in any and all kinds of new business ideas.

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.

Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

When you get involved in a startup, you have to be passionate.

I told myself the next time I had a good idea, I would bring it to market.

'Bazillion Dollar Club' follows six struggling startups trying to get their products together.

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

There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.

There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.

I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.

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

I watch 'Shark Tank,' of course. It's very entertaining. I think it's actually good to help people think about the business they might start, and sometimes you get encouraged by looking at someone going into business and saying, 'Hey, I could do that.'

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.

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.

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.