Julia Hartz Quotes

Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.

For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'

Sometimes, when you're building a company, out of necessity there's just a gazillion things you have to learn and figure out.

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.

To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?

The biggest challenge is to build the team and start the company, while hiring people, raising money, building a brand which has no history, all at the same time. You're doing a lot of things that in an established company are already done.

If opening your own business is the dream, then it must start with a Dream - not only to understand what it is that you want to do, but also, how you are going to build something better than the same chaotic environment you just left.

Every phase of building a company is really hard.

Dealing with business and trying to create never mixes for me.

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

You need to run the company on an even keel, and you need to be thinking about the company long-term and how to drive your next innovation.

I think a lot of entrepreneurs think they need money to build the business faster when they actually haven't figured out the business equation yet.

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.

There is a common and persistent belief out there that entrepreneurship is about creativity - that it's about having a great idea. But it's not, really. Entrepreneurship isn't about creativity. It's about organization-building - which, in turn, is about people.

You can be as creative as you want to and build all these cool projects, but ultimately, if they're not successful and you don't have the business structure in place, everything will flop.

Founders should think of their company as a product and build it and shape it with the same passion and care.

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

I love building companies; I love making products.

Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan - it's simply too dangerous to the health of your business.

There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

In a startup, in the early days, it can be hard to explain what you do.

Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and then thriving with an ongoing concern. Through choice, predilection, lack of education, impatience, or other causes, the entrepreneur lives, in a way, outside the mainstream.