Daniel Lyons Quotes

If WikiLeaks were a for-profit company, determining its real value would be a nearly impossible task.

Back in the year 2000, most of the Internet companies were not making any money.

With Facebook's IPO, the world learned a new way of organizing businesses around one overriding imperative: to ship new products quickly.

In an era of endless innovation and constant disruption, what is any company really worth? How does a startup determine its valuation?

The question for Dropbox is whether, when they run out of private sources for funding, they will be able to maintain that valuation when they go to public sources for funding and their valuation is set on the public markets.

If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.

Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

There is no correlation between a weak IPO market and an impact on early-stage VCs.

Della Valle is worried about RCS? RCS is a company that is doing well; I don't think that Della Valle is worried about this.

The stock market clearly values companies that can deliver disruptive innovation.

Amazon has reported a loss of nearly $900M in 1999... because, guess what, ecommerce is a business of scale. And, the Internet bubble had burst... which meant that no one was getting funded.

Whether you stay private or go public, after all is said and done, a CEO's job is to create lasting shareholder value.

There is a disconnect between the performance in stock market and the performance in many companies.

If the business were a play, Act One is: Woohoo, bright and bushy-tailed. We're going to make something great! Act Two is: We're six months behind on back-end development. We're trying to raise venture capital. We're trying to figure out what furniture we should sell to make payroll.

I fully understand that not all of the companies will succeed and that there will be losses along the way, but this is very much the norm with early stage investment.

The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.

Every time you start a company - and I've started five or six - you have the opportunity to screw up in whole new ways.

Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.

We see - every week or two, we see another story of a small business that went out of business because Donald Trump.

I've actually taken companies public, I've actually busted companies, I've actually gone broke.

While still in college, I started my first Internet company - American Information Systems - a dial-up Internet provider in the Internet's formative years.

I think it's hard to compare 'Twitter' and 'Instagram'. Twitter has a more mature business.

While 2015 was challenging, we implemented many strategic and operational initiatives to improve our business and better position J.Crew for the future.

The investor world that looks at studios as part of media companies will say that the studio business is supposed to be erratic. Not at our company. Not at Time Warner.