Startup Superstar Gifts

"Enjoy it while you can, kid. It's a really short hop from 'Geek Genius' to 'Quasi-Creepy, Weird-Looking Old Rich Guy!'"

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"The leadership team wants a catchy acronym for a new social media app they're calling Functional Applied Relationship Tracker. Any suggestions?"

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

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

"We're a very small international conglomerate."

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

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

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

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

Cartoon about having many investors for crowd funding.

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

"The Internet startup had only enough cash for one more day. But, miraculously, the money lasted for eight days, until more venture capital could be raised."

'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.'

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

"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

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

Recycling bin for 'short term business plans'

"And who, may I ask, is financing this startup country?"

"All that's left is inventing something insanely popular!"

Home Business - Newspaper Ad.

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

"Ok Watson, what have you dreamed up?"

'Wow, my own desk!'

"Can you believe those guys? We tell them absolutely, positively no further negotiations, and they stop negotiating!"

'The company I ran was non-profit, but that wasn't intentional.'

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

"C'mon. Just one more round of funding and I'll build you a horde that'll knock your socks off."

This horse isn't dead. It's just sleeping.