Zachary Quinto Quotes

The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.

Taking 1,000 meetings attempting to get backing to do clothing.

So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.

If you look at some of the smaller capital markets in Asia, when they want funding, they either come here to Hong Kong or they go to California, the mecca of the Internet, because they can capture the liquidity and then move on and do what they want to do, which is develop a business.

I've been an entrepreneur since I was 18. I started a company with a bunch of buddies that got funded in my senior year, and that's when I finished school. It was called Scour, a peer-to-peer service, file-sharing.

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.'

Mike Krieger and I started talking, and he decided he liked the idea of helping start the company. Once he joined, we took a step back and looked at the product as it stood.

You've got to really enable the next generation of start-ups.

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

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

When you walk into a room and you're asking someone to give you money to finance an idea, that's never easy.

I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out.

I work with people who come up with an idea and people throw money at it. They say, "Geeze, can I give you some money? Can I get a piece of that?" So, if your concept is good everything else becomes much easier. If your concept is unclear, then everything else is harder

There is a lot more young Indian entrepreneurs can do if they are given the money. They have the idea, and I would just like to help them realise it.

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.

Learn to raise capital by any means necessary. That's your primary job as an entrepreneur. You must continually raise capital from family and friends, banks, suppliers, customers and investors.

I'm a rock star at the WeWorks and tech centers of New York.

To an entrepreneur, closing a financing often feels like the end of a marathon. It's actually the starting gun.

I would love to learn how to start my own production company and start it in Boston.

To stimulate the economy, we need to give entrepreneurs the means to create wealth.

I propose that matchmaking should be approached like a corporate business venture. It can be risky, but I have discovered that the potential profits from acquisitions and mergers cannot be underestimated.

'Bazillion Dollar Club' follows six struggling startups trying to get their products together.

The purpose of the capital formation presentations and roundtable discussions is to create a dialogue with business leaders, economic development organizations, business incubators, and community leaders to promote investment in Montana and support businesses as they start up and/or grow their existing operations.

Kickstarter is perfect for us. It wasn't something we heard about and just got to it. We did our research, met with the people at Kickstarter - they are brilliant, and they're excited to work with us.

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