Scott Weiss Quotes

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

I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.

I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

I called up a bunch of the CEOs of Silicon Valley companies and said, 'Hey, can I come and see you? And I'd like to learn about what you're doing.' And I don't know, most of them said yes.

I've always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.

I am always interested in helping and growing new tech start-ups and ideas.

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

One of the things that I've always loved to do is brainstorm ideas with friends and get together and talk about what they're building... Essentially, my day-to-day is just going around and meeting entrepreneurs and talking to them about what they plan on launching.

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'

It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.

Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Nurturing a project from the ground floor is something I've been wanting to do.

I think the Indian AI ecosystem is growing rapidly. A lot of Indian entrepreneurs reach out to me seeking feedback about startups and products. And some of them have very interesting business ideas.

I really have become very interested at working with and helping entrepreneurs at the early stages of their growth.

Our main funders... a lot of them are entrepreneurs and technologists themselves as well and familiar with iterative development processes.

Part of the thing that's magic about TechStars is it's about a community that wants to make itself better.

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.

I enjoy business, being an entrepreneur on every level. I really enjoy it.

I'll be a mentor to those who want to create a business, product or service and aren't exactly sure how to do that. To me, it's a true sign of success if I can help someone have a better time of it.

I was the CEO of Justin.tv, and my cofounders were senior engineers there. We came up with the idea at Justin.tv in the fall of 2010.