Steve Jurvetson Quotes

The phrase 'change the world' is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business plans as freely as talk of 'early-stage investing' and 'beta tests.'

I do think there are more and more entrepreneurs all the time that think big. Those are the people we should be finding and funding. Most of them will fail, but the ones who succeed will change the world, and that is progress.

I hear entrepreneurs use the word 'disruption' on a daily basis and continuously hear the cliche change the world.

It's worth noting that everything - from the Internet to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media - were pioneered by startups, not existing companies.

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.

In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.

Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

I love working with really early stage startups where the outcome is still in doubt. Maybe they'll go on to greatness, or maybe they'll never get off the runway at all.

I'm a creature of startups. For example, I don't want government interference in the startup ecosystem.

I'm just more excited about helping new entrepreneurs create the next Facebook or Google.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Technology ventures can succeed with very little investment, unlike many other industries. A lot of the big Internet players like Google or Yahoo were started by a couple of guys with computers. Microsoft was started in Bill Gates' garage.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

Look at MIT—the smartest people in the world. They start up 50 companies a year. Only 1 makes it.

My attitude is there are at least hundreds of interesting startups that are going to get going in every year.

With innovation, there is always risk.

I'm in favour of entrepreneurial, risk-taking businesses that create great products and services.

The only rollercoasters I get on are startups.

Risk is the willingness to fail.

If you want to be a change agent, you have to ready to fail.