Dan Rosensweig Quotes

In a startup, there have to be challenges. Otherwise, someone else would have done it already. And that's almost the most exciting part.

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.

I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus. Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.

Startups, by their nature, are entrepreneurial - testing new things, launching new products, and disrupting themselves. That's why you join a startup in the first place - to create, to stretch beyond your current capabilities, and to make an outsized impact.

In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it.

A lot of the entrepreneurs and founders have big dreams and are on a mission to build things that the world has never seen before.

I feel that one thing that a businessman can learn is do not follow a path that has already been successful. You will never be a path-breaker then.

I have some ideas for things nobody's done before, and some are ideas bigger than me that I might be able to pull off, maybe.

If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.

Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

Like many of my fellow entrepreneurs, I didn't create Hearsay Social with my co-founder Steve Garrity because it would be fun and easy, but because we're at our best when faced with enormous challenges.

Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.

When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.

The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.

Hearing 'no' a lot of times usually tells you either you're crazy or you're on the right track, and you don't know which one it is until you finally launch.

I don't think as big and as creative as Joss.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.