Startup Difficulties Quotes

Financing is always the hard part, especially if you don't have friends or family to back you, which was my case and the case for most designers.

Starting a successful company is one of the hardest things anyone does.

First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater than it was in the relatively benign '90s.

It's hard to get started as a young entrepreneur - often much harder than one would ever realize.

I know first-hand how hard it is to start a business. Those first few years are rough.

It's much more difficult running a business than buying one.

I don't know a startup that hasn't been through tough times.

Entrepreneurs say in an economic boom it's actually hard to build a company because everybody's too excited and there is too much money funding too many marginal companies.

Building a product is easy. But building the company that builds the product is hard.

I kept being told, 'If you really want to build a start up, you have to be in San Francisco,' so I ended up taking out a suitcase. It did occur to me to do it in London but it's very, very difficult to build a start up in London - so I guess I was being lazy.

If you can imagine what it's like to launch a business in the middle of a lawsuit - it's not an easy thing.

It's a fight to get anyone other than your mom to care about your startup.

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.

It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.

It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult.

As anyone who has started a company knows, it's pretty common not to see any income for months.