Brad Feld Quotes

Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.

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

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.

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

All the biggest companies are based on a founder who had a need, hacked it together, and said, 'Hey, other people might want this.'

My attitude is there are at least hundreds of interesting startups that are going to get going in every year.

I have this passion for building things, so I always wanted to build a startup. I always wanted to start my own company.

There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.

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

I love building companies; I love making products.

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

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.

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.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.

I want to create an environment where I can create technology, get it into the hands of someone to market it, and move on to other technologies so I can keep innovating. I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products.

I do think there are more and more entrepreneurs all the time that think big. Those are the people we should be finding and funding. Most of them will fail, but the ones who succeed will change the world, and that is progress.

A startup, to a some degree, is a set of those challenges of, 'If you don't solve this, you're dead.'

An entrepreneur is not a person who starts a company, but he is the person who actually solves a problem.

It's important for founders to think about how they would build their company from scratch - again.

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

I'm working with a lot of entrepreneurs and people launching new businesses. It's fun. It's what I've always liked to do and loved doing it in my years at NASCAR when we were growing NASCAR, building different lines of business and intellectual properties.