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We're always interested in safety - doing the right thing to protect the customers and the homeowners - but if they require the customer to put sprinklers in, it's going to add from $4,000 to $10,000 a home. If you tack that onto a startup home, that will leave some people unable to buy a home.

Robert Sherman

Some people didn't feel comfortable trusting a tiny startup with their documents... and we're no longer a tiny startup.

Claudia Carpenter

As a brand new startup company, one of the things you have to do is go out and raise money and be a visionary. I came up with the basic ideas for the technology here, so I'm more of a technologist. And I really had a longing to get back on the engineering side.

David Ditzel

This took a long time, even finding a manufacturer willing to deal with a startup company.

Rita Vescera

That startup cost has been prohibitive for us getting it into other languages.

Debbie Morgan

A veteran of portal and search wars, Rob has seen and touched all aspects of Yahoo's business from startup to hyper-growth.

Jim Barnett

I think maybe there is a small tech startup companies out there where perhaps maybe the owner has horses and I think something like that would be an ideal person.

Frank Stronach

It's generally due to the Internet boom. It's due to both companies like Excite@Home who are further along in their life cycle as well as the second-, third-, fourth-generation startup companies that surround Excite@Home.

Joe Kraus

We've got a Silicon Valley mentality, a startup feel, long days, weekends -- that's the culture we want to promote. We've never really looked at what anybody else was going to do.

David Krell

We plan to rebuild as the city rebuilds. New Orleans is an important city to us. We have employees who are anxious to get back to work, but we don't want to give anyone false hope for when we will start more flights. We're looking at this much as we would look at a new startup city. We'll watch the trends.

Paula Berg

If you are going to ask someone to take a risk on your startup, you have to give some equity.

Srivats Sampath

They have been in a startup mode for a very long time, and have been in a negative cash flow mode for a very long time. If the capital markets became less receptive, you could envision the music stopping and not enough chairs being there.

Heather Goodchild

We see a lot of startup companies, people that have a home-based office, they've been working out of their basement for two or three years, and now their basement or kids cannot accommodate them any longer.

Nancy Fox

I would recommend that all the nonprofits sign up, because the information shared was of significant value. It taught you how to really run a nonprofit from startup to audit.

Daisy Fulton

There are all these great programmers out there who think starting a startup requires esoteric business knowledge.

Paul Graham

Investing in a startup community bank can be a very good investment if you are patient, because the pay off is years away.

John Carusone

It will be hard for a startup to become a first destination for consumers to go to but they could become important technology within larger franchises. As long as all the major search players develop or license good video search technology they will be the most popular places to go.

David Edwards

It's a goal, just like in '94. We set a goal for PMC to do a half a billion [dollars] in 2001, ... I think we're going to achieve that is the good news, but it's not a forecast, it's a goal. We are doing business with over 200 startup companies today.

Bob Bailey

Most smaller startup airlines would not have been able to withstand this kind of shutdown. I am pleased to say we still have a very strong balance sheet, which is good news for the flying public and for ValuJet employees. We can get through this difficult period.

Lewis Jordan

The idea of the ordinance, ... is to allow startup businesses to prosper. When they get larger, it's time for them to move into a business zone.

Wayne Sorensen