Business Growth Strategies Quotes

I think co-working spaces, incubators, and accelerators outside of the Bay Area do a lot to foster a local startup scene - which is really important for early founders, but I also think that exposure to the Bay Area is extremely valuable for startups.

We want to see huge growth in this economy in small- and medium-sized businesses.

I understand small business growth. I was one.

I've spent my whole life before coming to Congress as a Chamber of Commerce manager. What that means is you help start small businesses, help them grow in good times and bad.

Startup investing is one of my things, but it is not my everything.

Facebook will figure out ways to allow people to have good businesses.

In the mid-to-late 1990s, I was an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Kauffman Foundation working with Jana Matthews on 'learning programs for high growth entrepreneurs.'

I didn't think the family business would be big enough to have an opportunity for me.

One of the biggest motivation for me and my co-founder was to learn and see what is happening in the market, see what next generation of entrepreneurs are doing. This has been the biggest motivation to investing in start-ups.

I saw that we needed to grow but our top line wasn't growing, so we had to find other ways to grow the business. We had to reshape our business and acquire share in a non conventional way. But most tech leaders don't come out of a business background. They really have a parochial point of view. All they know are the go-go years of Silicon Valley. That's the environment in which they were raised.

Each industry in a region should develop a playbook that expands and details the strategy and tactics of how to build a scalable startup.

What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?

Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.

There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize.

Congress can protect small businesses by providing effective oversight over SBA policies and make sure they take into account the needs of small businesses while also protecting taxpayer dollars. Congress also needs to make sure that new banking regulations do not make it more costly for community banks to lend to small businesses.