Jefferson Han Quotes

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

If you want to build a startup that has a good chance of succeeding, don't listen to me. Listen to Paul Graham and others who are applying tons of data to the idea of startup success. That will maximize your chance of being successful.

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

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.

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.

I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that. I have to have the wheel.

In technology, most things fail. Most companies fail.

I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

In an increasingly competitive technology world, VCs must work more and more closely with portfolio companies to develop superior technology, talent, and operations.

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

There is a premium on innovation and commercializing new ideas.

As an entrepreneur, my problem was that I had too many ideas.

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.

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

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

Academics are becoming much more entrepreneurial these days.

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.

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.

Israel produces more conceptual products than any other country.

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

Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.

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