Michael Seibel Quotes

Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.

I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.

It would be idiotic to position ourselves against Silicon Valley.

ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.

The best training ground in the world is Silicon Valley and the tech space.

In 2014, Utah cities Salt Lake City and Provo both surpassed Silicon Valley in per-deal venture capital averages. From large, multi-campus companies to promising start-ups, Silicon Slopes offers a promising climate for businesses. The entire tech industry has its eyes on Utah.

I think that even knocking on the door allows you to understand a little bit of that kind of stuff. Mainly what Silicon Valley has taught me, in that respect, is the business side of it, with that gold rush element as opposed to creating software.

Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him a long time ago. Maybe I could have gotten in there. But with photo sharing, I don't know if there's an obvious business model. I don't think there's a competitive, sustainable advantage.

Silicon Valley has been a technology capital like New York is a financial capital.

Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.

There is a huge amount of wealth that's generated here in Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

I think that Vancouver as well as Canada needs a boot camp for young entrepreneurs. We have already seen tens if not hundreds of people put their names forward to be involved in the program, and we just think this is an amazing way to accelerate what they're doing.

When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.

Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.

I don't think Philadelphia's challenge is in coming up with great ideas or having great founders. I think the real challenge is keeping them here.

For most Indians in America, wealth is not inherited. Neither do we make it as heads of large hedge funds and private equity funds. For us to make it to the top, we have to use our knowhow to create great new technology products and build high-tech companies.

My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.

The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government.

Loopt wouldn't have happened without Y Combinator.

One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you're surrounded by all these people who've done it before. This place is an assembly line that takes a couple of twenty-somethings and walks you through everything you need to learn.

I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub.

Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.