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" Many entrepreneurs have shifted their focus to pursuing VC funding as a primary strategic priority instead of concentrating on generating value for their users. This is worrisome because raising capital alone is misleading as a benchmark for success. "

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" Rex is 60 years old with 13 million images and 10 million in archive. It's the first time we've had a historic archive to work with, which is super interesting. "

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" Was I going to start companies outside of Shutterstock or inside? Going public kind of meant I was going to start them inside, and I kind of thought this through and decided that if I was going to do that, I was going to continue to operate Shutterstock like it was an incubator of startups. "

" To ensure we are meeting the demands of existing customers while also attracting new users, we remain focused on building cutting-edge technology and introducing new and innovative product offerings. "

" Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law. "

" The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all rely on you. Being a leader is a 24-hour-a-day job. "

" In the early days, start-ups make the main mistake of hiring people to do the work that they could do themselves. "

" I met with several public company CEOs to learn about their experiences of going public and listened to as many earnings calls as I possibly could. "

" We significantly increased our global presence in 2014. During the year, we expanded the number of languages in which we serve customers to a total of 20. "

" I think, as an entrepreneur, you have to see the unlimited amount of potential but concentrate on your day and just keep building. "

" There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how to code. We need to encourage computer science as a major. We need to encourage entrepreneurism. "

" Some people are serial entrepreneurs and want to just move on to the next thing. They just want to clean the slate and start from scratch. I feel that sometimes, too, and the way that we do that here is we build things inside Shutterstock: we launch new products all the time. "

" We have a lot of customers in Japan, but they don't quite get the local content that they always need, so we want to encourage all of our product teams to start thinking globally. "

" I hear so many startups talking about how they can raise VC instead of questioning whether they need it in the first place. "

" We realized we had high-volume marketplace as a platform. Anyone can come in and buy with a subscription. "

" Many entrepreneurs think that cash is the ultimate solution to all of their problems: the one thing standing between them and their dreams. "

" I needed to make the buyer happy: I needed to provide a price point and sort of a model that was attractive to them. But I also needed to make the contributor happy. "

" There's tonnes of room for more people in the tech market, and there are lots of content gaps that have still not yet been tapped into. "

" I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about. "

" We recognized early on that media consumption was evolving and customers were looking for moving images to include as part of their advertising campaigns, website designs and corporate presentations. "

" Just as we are enhancing the customer side of our marketplace, we are also looking for ways to increase our contributor expense. "

" There aren't enough people out there that are becoming experts in technology as technology moves. "

" The problem with taking venture capital is if you take $5m from someone, it may feel great; you may feel like they're validating your business model. But they're giving $5m out to 20 different people, hoping one of them will be a hit. They don't really care if it's you. "

" I found it very helpful not to do the venture round. Instead, I started with very little money, a few thousand dollars, and I did every job myself. I was the first photographer. I was the first customer service rep. I was the first online marketing person. "

" The best ways of marketing were email and banner advertising, but I needed images... and they were very expensive. "

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" In 2013, we opened our first international office in London and established a European hub in Berlin. "

" All businesses need images to sell their products and services. "

" I like San Francisco, but I don't think I'd want to work in Palo Alto. It seems like a pretty rough commute. In many ways, I think New York has a lot of things the West Coast doesn't have. "

" I believe anything has to be possible. You have to be able to face any problem that comes along and unravel it into a solution. "

" I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker. "

" At Shutterstock, we've been offering tutorials to customers and contributors on our blog for many years. Our audience already viewed us as thought leaders on the latest digital and creative skills; we felt it so natural for us to launch Skillfeed, which is an online marketplace for professional learning. "