Tech Startup Launch Gifts

Coffee Shop and Battery Charging Station

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

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

"He might not have got the job with Google, but they weren't going to stop Brian skateboarding to the office."

"Is it just a scary coincidence that the words 'changes' and 'unknown' both have 7 letters?"

Networking

Bright Idea

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

'It's my company, I'll decide whether I want to go to the partner's meeting or not.'

Not thinking BIG enough: Nickel & Dime Bank.

'This is from a post-ethics phase.'

Boom

Mark Zuckerberg

Computer Hitching a Ride to Silicon Valley

Internet.

At the suit makers

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

"Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% budget allocation."

"I love fast break business success."

"That was a great ideaof yours, chester."

'Superstock'

Cartoon about having many investors for crowd funding.

Otto the SmartyCar!

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

'...your hindsight on this project was far more accurate than his foresight.'

Mountain Tops Incorporated

"Gentlemen, may I present our company's future. A buggy whip... with Bluetooth!"

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

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

Dragon's den desk. 'I'm in' and 'I'm out' tray on desk.

"We'll analyze the only thing left to analyze: what people throw away."

S.S.dot.com

"If I've got to work for a tyrant . . . I may as well work for myself."

'Those are my twins: NASDAQ and Dow. They were born at the height of the dot.com boom.'

"You're just gaming down there? Shouldn't you be issuing your first IPO for some billion dollar internet enterprise you've created?"