Aileen Lee Quotes

We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.

Often, entrepreneurs don't build a board until they are forced to by their VCs when they raise their first financing round. This is dumb, as you are missing the opportunity to add at least one person to the team who - as a board member - can help you navigate the early process of building your company and raising that first round.

Other than playing the game I love, my passion is investing in innovative companies and helping the entrepreneurs behind them succeed.

I'll be a mentor to those who want to create a business, product or service and aren't exactly sure how to do that. To me, it's a true sign of success if I can help someone have a better time of it.

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

The biggest challenge is to build the team and start the company, while hiring people, raising money, building a brand which has no history, all at the same time. You're doing a lot of things that in an established company are already done.

I am always interested in helping and growing new tech start-ups and ideas.

I love helping entrepreneurs. It's something I really have fun doing. It's like planting a little seed and watching it grow.

You've got to really enable the next generation of start-ups.

A lot of people have a great business idea; they just need a little push to make it a reality.

I'm working with a lot of entrepreneurs and people launching new businesses. It's fun. It's what I've always liked to do and loved doing it in my years at NASCAR when we were growing NASCAR, building different lines of business and intellectual properties.

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

The biggest problem I see with early-stage entrepreneurs is they get the idea in their head, and they leave it in their head. And they begin embellishing it in their head, making it more ornate. They add on the second story to their dream house - then add the tennis court and the turrets and the gargoyles.

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.

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

I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship.

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

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

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.

An entrepreneur needs to know what they need, period. Then they need to find an investor who can build off whatever their weaknesses are - whether that's through money, strategic partnerships or knowledge.

The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.

When my co-founder and I first had the idea for IronPort, an email security company, we triangulated a list of the 20 most relevant people in email - former CEOs, open source technologists, investors and thought leaders.

Every phase of building a company is really hard.