Matt Mickiewicz Quotes

I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.

I developed an interesting skill set in that I was able to create a network and create experiences and environment - I built this decadent playground for men. It might have been successful, but it wasn't important. It didn't have any true meaning.

I put my own money up when I have a vision and believe in something. If you want a company to put money into something, then most of the time, they want to water your project down. When it's your money, it's your vision from the beginning to the end result.

If you have to improve your fuel efficiency every year, it leads to innovation.

We never would have built ClassPass if I hadn't learned so much from the Classtivity experience.

I would love to learn how to start my own production company and start it in Boston.

I was born trying to figure out why other kids were just playing in a circle. What are you doing in the circle? Duck, Duck, Goose? What is the goose supposed to do? You could be organizing; you could be producing products that are for sale. You have a circle, but how are you utilizing it?

There are a lot of people that have great ideas that want to create disruptive companies that change the world but everybody doesn't have the skills to be able to do that.

I look at myself like a farmer, harvesting my wares and taking them to the market, and then I go back and do it again.

I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.

I admit that I resent running out of research money.

The cool thing about a start-up - this is sort of the entrepreneur side of me - is that you can make it grow as much as you can. Or you can squander the talent as much as you want. But it's up to you.

Entrepreneurship transparency, I think, is important because there are so many problems that you just have to be real about them. There are so many ways for a startup to die, so the transparency attitude is key.

The real reason I was lo-fi before was really just because that's what I could afford.

I've always been an idea person, so I've always been great at having ideas, just not having the resources to make them happen.

Part of being an entrepreneur is, like, it's just so great to run your own business, that feeling you get.

I aim to combine all the things I do in a comprehensive and holistic fashion that benefits startups and the people who make them grow.

Use of energy-efficient LEDs, pumps, fans, and air-conditioners will save power consumption and reduces the peak load.

It's amazing how small business owners figure out how to stretch a dollar as far as they possibly can.

Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.

Starting a business from scratch and having little money in the bank focuses your mind in a way that running a multibillion-dollar business never does. It brings the key drivers of performance into sharp relief. I promise.

I learned from growing a business that it's important to listen to everyone how we can do better.

People often ask me if my parents helped me. My mother did lend me $10 to register the domain name.

Pretty soon I may have to go back to Canada and buy that lumberyard I've always wanted. I'll probably sell some lumber, bring in some lumber... look at exploiting that lumber somehow. I'm not very schooled in it, but being an actor I feel that I have a keen sensibility with regard to the world of lumber because those two businesses are so similar.

We couldn't afford to move, so we decided to start up a model agency.