Startup Founders Gifts

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

"Well, we've put in our blood, sweat and tears...now we just need to come up with $35 million."

"You've been working out of your parent's basement since 1993?"

"Remember, we've got to dig down together as a team to create the right foundation that will benefit this entire project as a hole."

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

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

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

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

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

'Ideas.com' desk with a 'come' tray and a 'gone' tray.

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

"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."

Boom

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

Big Shot/Bigger Shot.

"Right here is your baby’s infrastructure, and in a month or so we’ll be able to see the analytics."

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

'I just wanted to thank you for grounding me to my room for the weekend. I took the time to start a computer programming company, which earned me $13 million.'

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

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

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

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

"Can you go through all the old pitch decks and replace the word 'crypto' with 'AI'?"

"We thought about a restaurant and decided we were more of a bookstore."

'Wow, my own desk!'

Recycling bin for 'short term business plans'

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

"Ok Watson, what have you dreamed up?"

"Harris, I want you to buy up anything that has 'dot com' in their title."

'Obviously, for Ben's proposal to really take off, he'll need a longer runway than our little company can provide!'