Todd Park Quotes

In high school, I started my first company, called M Cubed Software. We named it that because it was me and two other guys named Mike.

On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees.

I think that anyone who wants to start their own business can, but not any type of business.

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

Your success starts with how you are able to get clients in the door, get their business, and leave them satisfied. If you, personally, have to spend too much time doing that, you have simply bought yourself a job, not an enterprise. Take hints from success stories all around you!

I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

Whenever you start a new business, the sheer number of variables at hand makes failure a constant possibility.

The art of entrepreneurship and the science of Customer Development is not just getting out of the building and listening to prospective customers. It's understanding who to listen to and why.

Entrepreneurship works on the apprenticeship model. The best way to learn how to be an entrepreneur is to start a company and seek the advice of a successful entrepreneur in the area in which you are interested. Or work at a startup for a few years to learn the ropes.

A lot of people want to start a business, and they're like, 'I wanna start a business, give me some money to invest.' Where is your business plan? Are you investing money yourself into your own business? How is this going to work? People think that they can just come to you with an idea and have money.

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

I just came from school one day and told my mom I want to start my finance company.

It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.

I know plenty of entrepreneurs who are numbers first. They tend to be highly analytical people, and before they pull the trigger, all the numbers have to line up just right.

Creative drives our business; the business doesn't drive the creative.

This industry is a business - I'm a business myself, and I want to be able to run my own business.

I remember when I was young, I was watching TV, and my father came into the room, agitated, and told me to start a business. I was eight years old.

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.

Chipotle was wildly successful, and I thought, 'Well, let me open one more.'

Medical engineering is one of the areas in which the traditional 'silo' structures of university disciplines have not encouraged collaboration.

When we started WeWork it really was thought of holistically.

I've always felt that sort of in the abstract, open-source is the right thing to do for a lot of the kinds of things that we do. There are a variety of issues that make it a very complex discussion as to whether it actually works as a business.

The most dangerous thing for an entrepreneur to do is to actually go into a business that he does not understand fully.

The truth is that the greatest innovations in health-care delivery haven't come from federally contrived oligopolies or enormous hospital chains. Novel concepts - whether practice-management companies, home health care or the first for-profit HMO - almost always have come from entrepreneurial firms, often backed by venture capital.

Starting a business is similar to an athletic endeavor, like serving a tennis ball. Telling you how to do it is useless. You actually get better through a combination of practice, coaching, and repetitions with money on the line.