Startup Ecosystem Quotes

You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.

It's worth noting that everything - from the Internet to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media - were pioneered by startups, not existing companies.

The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.

The wunderkinder of Silicon Valley—their fortunes, business empires, and, more fundamentally, entire sense of self—exist because of the nation that in many cases made their rise possible.

I really knew almost nothing about Silicon Valley. I read that Steve Jobs book and watched a bunch of documentaries, and read the book about Mark Zuckerberg. I tried to learn some stuff, but there are consultants on the Silicon Valley show that know so much about it where you can get answers. To me, it's more important to get the particulars about that type of person as opposed to the specifics of the technology world.

Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.

The entrepreneurial opportunity in America is alive and well.

For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.

Ultimately, I'd love to see a legacy company that has alumni that come out of it and go on to create other big things. A maple-syrup mafia, a HootSuite mafia.

St. Louis is a customer- and partner-rich environment for any financial tech startup.

Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.

In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now.

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

The best training ground in the world is Silicon Valley and the tech space.

Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.

Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.

Silicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America

We were very, very lucky being in the first round of Y Combinator because that alone generated a lot of interest. A lot of readers of Paul Graham were just excited to see what was going to come up. And we were the first ones to launch.

I don't do a ton of deals a year, and I really like working with startups - it's the only way I can invest. It fits my ADD brain.

On AngelList, we get 100 new companies created a day. That's an insane flood.