Future Founders Gifts

"There's your son's heartbeat, and over here is the app he's developing."

'I think you are taking this elevator pitch way too literally'.

'I have this fear of the real world...'

'We've financed three more startups for no fathomable reason.'

"I'll bet all of Albert Einstein's teachers felt like idiots for giving him bad grades too."

Yomp Foundation Presentation committee: 'Don't let the gong intimidate you!'

'We've financed three more startups for no fathomable reason.'

"You're a genius, Shaw. This is an idea whose copyright has expired."

A child runs an equity stand.

"When you've been here as long as I have, you'll start to burn out"

"In my old job we were encouraged to run fast and break things."

"Ambitions... to open an office on Mars. Kennedy Space Center."

"I have no toys just yet. I have a concept of a plan for toys...toys like no one has ever seen before."

'You always bring me the same thing every year, toys games sports equipment. I never get what I really want!' - 'What's that?' - 'Real estate!'

"If it's all the same to you, I'd like my allowance in bitcoins."

"I've always wanted an empire of Distance Learning Campuses."

"I'll go to my room and do my homework, but I want time and a half."

'I wrote a software program and sold it for two million dollars.'

"I wrote this one after my third startup failed. It’s called ‘I Got Yer App Right Here.’"

'When will I be old enough to have my own people?'

'This is where I keep my investment portfolio.'

'My company utilizes a yet-to-be-developed technology to deliver content that's still in the conceptual stage to a segment of the economy we really hope is out there!'

'Looks like the perfect time to bring in our profit sharing scheme.'

"'Start a company, make money.' Your business plan may be missing a few steps in the middle."

'Your future looks charming.'

'If you don't learn how to sign your name, you'll have to pay cash!'

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"We've decided to diversify our funds on some candy!"

"Never mind devices - we need to establish a 'bring your own funding' policy."

His verbal skills are developing, but his motor skills are very advanced. (Originally published on 2009-02-01).

'I begin to question whether this startup ever had venture capital.'

And elevator with 'up', 'down', and 'pitches' buttons

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"I'm appointing you head of marketing...your first job is to come up with something we can market...and to who??"

"I know your dad's a hedge fund manager, Amber, but you don't need a bigger piece of paper to draw a picture of your house."