Startup Funding Quotes

#1. A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy one. That's a $100 billion industry. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gave me $20 million in startup funding to go after that market.

Burt Rutan

#2. I write about subectivety-and inarticulation-about life pushing you into a state where everything is melting until you're left with the absolute and you can find neither the words nor the images to express it.

Deirdre Madden

#3. I started Shutterstock without any outside funding; I believe in creating a lean startup. By not taking outside investors early, I was forced to use every dollar I had as efficiently as possible. And I was able to keep a large part of the company.

Jon Oringer

#4. A hardware startup with no funding is a risky venture.

Brendan Iribe

#5. We pray to obey God, not to 'play God'. We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to 'let God be God'. Prayer is our obedience to God even when it asks God for things, for God has commanded us to ask (Mt. 7:7).

Peter Kreeft

#6. An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.

Robert A. Rice Jr.

#7. One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies.

Paul Graham

#8. They were both in their own ways earnest; they both wanted to achieve some worthy end or other, change the world for the better. Such alluring, such perilous ideals!

Margaret Atwood

#9. I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the story. Technique can't operate at all, of course, except on believable material.

Flannery O'Connor

#10. A hardware startup with a lot of funding and a lot of momentum has a lot less risk.

Brendan Iribe

#11. Even if you set a long-term goal, that doesn't mean it's a straight-line journey. Often, there are problems and obstacles along the way.

Fred DeLuca