Business Incubator Quotes

Ultimately, I'd love to see a legacy company that has alumni that come out of it and go on to create other big things. A maple-syrup mafia, a HootSuite mafia.

Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

I don't do a ton of deals a year, and I really like working with startups - it's the only way I can invest. It fits my ADD brain.

I often talk about the PayPal mafia out of San Francisco, people that were in PayPal and got out of PayPal and continue to reinvest in other start-ups and create a huge pay-it-forward type of network there.

The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.

Loopt wouldn't have happened without Y Combinator.

You need to create a place where young students can flesh out their business plans and further develop their research projects and then have a fund to help students get started in their businesses.

The most important thing you need to make one of those incubator/accelerator type projects work is to have some people who understand how to do it and want to do it in a particular place.

What Techstars is fundamentally a global ecosystem in which entrepreneurs are enabled and empowered to bring new technologies to the market.

In 2016, you no longer have to be in Silicon Valley to launch a successful startup. Colorado is home to many.

When I grew up here, there was no T-Hub. Probably, the closest to T was the Tank bund.

The first thing that any city that's trying to create a startup community or an entrepreneurial ecosystem that's vibrant should do is get rid of the idea that they're trying to be like Silicon Valley.

Our tenants now are companies like Uber, the taxi service, Meituan.com, China's version of Groupon - and a large number of startups. These companies operate in a modern way, just like their customers: They go on the Internet, look for an offer and take it.

I would like to see additional funding for entrepreneurial development programs.

I think Kansas City has one of the strongest entrepreneurial ecosystems in the country.

Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.

The goal shouldn't be to be the next Silicon Valley (there'll always only be one of those) - it's to be your own startup community.

An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily the right path for starting a tech company. You should be building a prototype, not getting an MBA in that case.

We have a mentoring and angel investing programme. We are also talking to the government to help create a VC industry.

Nominally, I stated a company. Practically, it's a venture capital firm that allows me to be an investor in early stage companies.