Internet Startups Quotes

Technology ventures can succeed with very little investment, unlike many other industries. A lot of the big Internet players like Google or Yahoo were started by a couple of guys with computers. Microsoft was started in Bill Gates' garage.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook.

You can make an internet company with 10 people and it can have billions of users. It doesn't take much capital and it makes a lot of money — a really, really lot of money — so it's natural for everyone to focus on those kinds of things.

I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.

There's going to be a Google or a Facebook or a Zynga every three to five years. Those are really big ideas that do return substantial amounts of money.

If you look at the Internet, the vast majority of start-ups are not successful. But the ones that are, are very very successful. So you can't point to the unsuccessful ones and say, 'There's no hope for this field.' It's just that they had the wrong idea or they had bad execution.

Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture.

I would never be able to work on a photo-sharing app or 'Internet startup XYZ.'

I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty much eliminate meetings from my life.

Back in the year 2000, most of the Internet companies were not making any money.

As with early internet startups, some token models don't make sense. For every 1 huge hit, there will be 3 minor successes and 100 failures, so we shouldn't be surprised when some fail.

The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it.

So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.