Maelle Gavet Quotes

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

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.

The biggest problem is startups in search of a problem. Chase what you're passionate about; you'll probably already have knowledge in the space.

The recommendation when I'm mentoring folks, I always tell them - and we talked about this last year - take a risk.

I think a lot of entrepreneurs think they need money to build the business faster when they actually haven't figured out the business equation yet.

As an entrepreneur, I am focused on my business.

If you want to build a startup that has a good chance of succeeding, don't listen to me. Listen to Paul Graham and others who are applying tons of data to the idea of startup success. That will maximize your chance of being successful.

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.

Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.

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

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

I'm always really excited to try something new in my profession that I haven't done yet.

Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.

In a startup, in the early days, it can be hard to explain what you do.

When talking to first-time entrepreneurs, I often ask them: 'How do you know that people want your product or service?' As you can expect, the answer is often that they don't yet, but will know once they launch. And they're right. That's why it's critical to launch as quickly as possible so you can get that feedback.

I saw these new kinds of stores: the Body Shop, the Sock Shop, and I thought to myself, 'I can do that.'

You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very little; it's in the execution and market feedback that companies are made.

Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that. I have to have the wheel.

I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.

That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light.