Entrepreneur Support Quotes

State funds, private equity, venture capital, and institutional lending all have their role in the lifecycle of a high tech startup, but angel capital is crucial for first-time entrepreneurs. Angel investors provide more than just cash; they bring years of expertise as both founders of businesses and as seasoned investors.

Some incubators, like Y Combinator and TechStars, were started by successful entrepreneurs wishing to help the next generation learn from their experiences. Other programs, such as Viterbi Startup Garage and Austin Technology Incubator, were created by universities to help young entrepreneurs bridge the knowledge gap from student to funded company.

VC firms are... responsible for the full life cycle of a company: they find it, help it grow, open up a Rolodex, and sell it.

'Triple D' is not going anywhere. I enjoy highlighting my brothers and sisters in the business.

We've been publishing the TechStars data fully since the beginning on TechStars.com. For every single company, you can see if it's a failure, success, how much they raised. Entrepreneurs deserve that sort of transparency from accelerators, and it's not hard to do.

Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.

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

I would love to raise a fund or get some awesome empowered women together and put together an advisory board to get behind female entrepreneurs.

I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.

We spend a great deal of our energy making sure that small businesses have help in navigating to the outcomes that they want.

For me, the most entertaining evening would be to go sit with entrepreneurs and talk with them about how they're building their companies and how we can help to make them better. That's the one thing in the world - well, I love doing that.

We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.

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

I aim to combine all the things I do in a comprehensive and holistic fashion that benefits startups and the people who make them grow.

I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.

American workers need a common-sense plan to make small businesses and entrepreneurs competitive again - not simply more government spending.

Because Techstars is an intensely productive three-month program in which product development and iteration are primary goals, we're constantly looking to streamline our program to help entrepreneurs avoid recurring obstacles.

Finding entrepreneurs from diverse and international backgrounds is a top priority for us at Y Combinator.

I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.

You know what works in venture capital? A group of incredibly smart, connected people who have the financial wherewithal and risk appetite to make multi-million dollar bets on unproven ideas and inexperienced founders. People who can make decisions quickly, and who spend their time trying to help entrepreneurs make the most of that cash.

Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement in their early stages, and in Cambridge the links to the University and the huge pool of expertise here helps that.

I never said I enjoy anything about using the Internet. I enjoy helping the entrepreneurs who are building this thing that I don't necessarily like or use.

Having been a venture-backed CEO, and having an established background in working with consumer-focused companies, I've built a strong network of entrepreneurs and people who can help startups.

I try to help founders as much as I can, but so many of us we won't even take meetings with people who still just have an idea, because everyone has an idea.

Once we started making investments, we realized the same service we provided to artists was applicable to entrepreneurs as well.