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I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way. -- Nolan Bushnell
I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do. -- Marc Andreessen
All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles. -- Fred Wilson
I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds. -- Ehud Barak
There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States. -- Ron Chernow
Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects. -- James Surowiecki
When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover. -- Howard Dean
One role of government is to go where venture capital won't. -- Joe Biden
Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has. -- Bill Gurley
Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process. -- Mariana Mazzucato
The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined. -- Peter Thiel
I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was. -- Roelof Botha
The innovation industries are rapidly going global. In five years, more than 50% of venture capital returns will come from markets outside the United States, including China, India, Brazil, and Australia, and AlwaysOn events are on top of these trends. -- Jim Breyer
These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world. -- Alain de Botton
Northleaf is delighted to have been chosen to manage the new fund. We look forward to implementing the fund's long-term strategy of constructing a portfolio of high-potential venture capital funds with the scale and resources to execute their plans, support successful high-growth companies and deliver world-class returns. -- Jeff Pentland
If the business were a play, Act One is: Woohoo, bright and bushy-tailed. We're going to make something great! Act Two is: We're six months behind on back-end development. We're trying to raise venture capital. We're trying to figure out what furniture we should sell to make payroll. -- Caterina Fake
Working in the context of ultra-famous brands like Dior and Vuitton, creative spirits are always going to feel reined in. It's important that they are free to develop ideas. And rather than detracting from the principal job, it reinforces it. I think of that money as venture capital. It's not a big investment. -- Bernard Arnault
I'm amazed by the potential of more companies employing integrated philanthropic initiatives at earlier stages in their life cycle. What if this were done on an even more massive scale? Consider what would happen if a top-tier venture-capital firm required the companies in which it invested to place 1% of their equity into a foundation serving the communities in which they do business. -- Marc Benioff
My buddy Alex Blumberg learned - he was very public about his learning process, and I know for a fact because we sat next to each other for many years, that he knew nothing about venture capital or seed rounds or "A" rounds or whatever you call them, and he had to really learn, like, pitch by pitch. He just screwed pitches up. -- David Plotz
Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it. -- Scott Adams
Venture capital is always wanting to go up market. -- Clayton Christensen
Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector. -- Marc Andreesen
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits. -- Alex Berenson
Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase. -- Fred Wilson
I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation. -- Sanjay Kumar
I'll say this: I can't think of one instance in my 20 years in venture capital in which I have wanted to sell a company before the entrepreneur. -- Douglas Leone
Prior to SunRun, I was headed toward a career in venture capital and then realized I wanted to apply my knowledge of finance more directly to helping change the world. -- Lynn Jurich
So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster. -- Fred Wilson
It is clear as you look at the team why Data Point Capital has so quickly become one of the premier venture capital firms. I look forward to adding to the firm's very bright future. -- Colin Angle
I am a partner at CrunchFund, a venture capital firm with investments in many startups around the world. I am also a limited partner in many other venture funds which have their own startup investments. -- Michael Arrington
Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving the efficiency of capital markets. But as their role has grown, so have the risks they pose. -- Jack Reed
After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U.S. foreign policy, the State Department decided to take what Clinton calls a 'venture capital' approach to the funding of tools, research, public information projects, and training. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
When I started Biocon in 1978, the obstacles I needed to navigate were manifold - ranging from infrastructural hurdles to issues related to my credibility as a business woman. With no access to venture capital, money was scarce and high-cost, debt-based capital was all I had. -- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
There's nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated. -- Eric Ries
You know what works in venture capital? A group of incredibly smart, connected people who have the financial wherewithal and risk appetite to make multi-million dollar bets on unproven ideas and inexperienced founders. People who can make decisions quickly, and who spend their time trying to help entrepreneurs make the most of that cash. -- Sarah Lacy
When people start talking about venture capital and finances and how to create this and do that, a lot of it, I swear, it's like sitting in an escrow meeting when all you want to do is buy a house, and you're signing 50 pieces of paper, but you have no idea what they're talking about. -- Tony Hawk
The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we have a 13-year lockup on our money. And so enterprise can go in and out of fashion four different times, and we can go and invest in one of these companies, and it's okay, because we can stay the course. -- Marc Andreessen
There's never been a good period of venture capital when prices weren't high. -- Peter Barris
It doesn't need to be consistently concentrated in these venture-capital funds and things like that. -- Edward Snowden
Whatever the potential pitfalls, banks are increasingly enthusiastic about venture capital, particularly in new companies with strong prospects in fields like health care and technology. -- Alex Berenson
There's almost too much venture capital in India - there are issues with seed capital, but for venture capital, there's a lot money chasing deals here. -- Ram Shriram
Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible. -- Jose Ferreira

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