Natalie Prass Quotes

As soon as I left Georgia, my narrative became about taking risks and the fight for creative bedroom artists with no platform.

If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside some of that to invest in servers or contractors or other folks, that's actually the best way to start a business in my opinion.

Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.

The difference between the headphones and making music, it's like, okay, I have a new business here that I'm proud of, but my soul still remains in the music-making process.

I can kind of make money through my other passion, which is brewing, and that's a pretty stable business, and it would free up my timeslot to take roles that I really liked and that I thought were interesting.

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.

It's good to have experience in other ventures and have other goals. Like acting, having businesses, starting from zero and making something grow.

I have seen the way a conglomerate works. My personal calling was in start-ups, so I built my own start-up.

The business model is both the starting point and the scorecard for Customer Development progress.

We now understand the distinction between startups - who search for a business model - versus existing companies - that execute a business plan.

Especially those first few years of my comic book career, I had no idea what was going to happen the next day.

I'd worked in music for years and built all these relationships, so I bought a camera, built a website, and decided to go for it.

It typically takes multiple iterations and pivots to find product/market fit - the match between what you're building and who will buy it.

Having never taken a business class, the economics of restaurants scared me. I opened Chipotle with the idea that I could step away from it and use it to support my full-scale restaurant.

Entrepreneurs always begin the journey believing that they have the next big idea. They dream of the fame and fortune that awaits them if only they had the funding to pursue it. But the reality is that as the product is built and shared with customers, flaws in their concept are discovered that - if not overcome - will kill the business.

Something like Pinterest would scare the hell out of me. With $5 billion valuation - regardless how sound those numbers are - wouldn't be one that I would start, given what I would consider the risk of failure.

It was amazing feeling to be able to be involved in invention, but not just invention - the creating of a marketplace that had real value to add.

Some of the most successful products are born from a personal need to solve a problem rather than a desire to turn a profit.

There came a point when I was thinking, 'I'm now 26, 27, working on music every day, but I'm not making, like, a lot of money. What's happening? I guess I'll just start making dog clothes.'

I was honored to start a small business and to borrow an enormous amount of money and to build piece upon piece, place upon place, building upon building and product upon product, throughout the United States and eventually Europe and facilities around the world.

If you look at companies like Twitter, Google, all these companies started with ideas and then everybody used it. In my world, people don't think like that. Rappers chase the next check. They become a slave to labels and eventually that money starts shrinking.

When I was cutting hair, I felt like that was my trap. I started selling haircuts. I started selling beats; that's me trapping. So trap music is like hustling music to me.

It was daunting, giving up a regular job for a freelance world, where every day off is a day of unemployment and you are conscious you are not earning. But it was time to take a gamble and see what's on the other side.

My parents probably were delighted when I chose acting, because if there is one job in the world that is less financially reliable than acting, it is art.

When you're starting your own business it's really important to think through your plan: what's the idea, why is it relevant to the market, how much money you are going to invest, how are you going to tell people about it.