Reid Hoffman Quotes

I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.

The ideal time period to get an investment is when you've already proved your concept and know what you're doing, and it's about adding water to the seeds.

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

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

I'm really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there.

As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.

The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.

I never dreamed I could build a $100 million company. I just happened to build a $1 million company that became a $5 million company, and so on.

Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale.

Growth and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these.

One of the things we have learned in the first year is that if you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

At many companies, business development is treated as a sales tool for incremental growth, but I believe that business development can bend our growth curve in a big way. It should accelerate our ability to grow, helping us quickly close gaps or leap ahead of competitors.

Everything happens at one step at a time.

Supporting iconic, growth-oriented industries, combined with tax policies that encourage small business growth and investment, represents a potent combination and is the basis of our entire administration.

It's a lot easier to figure out how to scale something that doesn't feel like it would scale than it is to figure out what is actually gonna work. You're much better off going after something that will work that doesn't scale, then trying to figure how to scale it up, than you are trying to figure it all out.

I believe in this industry as a business, and I want to continue to grow my own business.

It's exciting to be able to be part of the block and tackle of building a company from a smaller base.

Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.

One game at a time - just win one game at a time.

Inasmuch as there is a useful purpose to what we do as VCs, I tend to think it's our duty not only to mentor entrepreneurs and executive teams, but also to learn from them and the others involved. We can then pass on lessons to aid the startup ecosystem and help businesses succeed and grow their impact.

As I've evolved, I'm capable of doing a lot of things at once, but really, as an entrepreneur and business person, it's more about adding the right structure to be able to handle scaling all those things as opposed to being at the forefront of doing a lot of them.

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.

The number of people who have successfully scaled a company from dream to post-IPO success - you could list them on the fingers of two hands.

I remember, when we were starting Tinder, we were like, 'We're going to be the next Instagram!' I remember sending my parents emails being like, 'We got 300 members!'

I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.