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Venture Capitalist Inspirational Quotes (196)

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My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second, at Flatiron, was Internet to bubble. And the third, at USV, has been web 2 to mobile. I have always used a new firm to denote a new investment phase for me. Throw away the old. Start with the new.
Fred Wilson
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Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.
Fred Wilson
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Obviously solving the education problem is big and complex, and there's already so many failings, but coding is the new fluency. This is the most valuable skill of this century. If you want to be a founder of a company, and not even just a tech company, but like a founder of a company, because I'm telling you software is going to play a role.
Alexis Ohanian
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LinkedIn allows you to search histories and CVs in your network - it's great for finding people who work in a particular company, or who have worked with someone you know. It's also an interesting way to find references for people or companies you're getting to know.
Joichi Ito
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From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you and your comfortable with it, the easier it is for somebody like me to say tell me more.
Brad Feld
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The stage of investing that I do is seed stage, so it's really early. Here's a pair of founders who maybe have a prototype. They have a little bit of traction, maybe one employee, tops. At that stage, you really, really can only evaluate a company based on those founders and what they've been able to build. It's very, very team driven.
Alexis Ohanian
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Make sure the thing you are working on is something you love.
Brad Feld
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Let's say you're all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn't have to be your everything.
Alexis Ohanian
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This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.
Arthur Rock
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You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky.
Roelof Botha
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Act now. Act with speed.
John Doerr
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I don't like the word 'futurists.' I think we should be 'nowists.'
Joichi Ito
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You can’t motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated.
Brad Feld
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I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.
Fred Wilson
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I am sure innovation will blossom around the world, given that the Internet and mobile platforms enable innovators anywhere in the world to reach a global market with ease.
Roelof Botha
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I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.
Joichi Ito
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It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.
Alexis Ohanian
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We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way
Alexis Ohanian
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It's OK, by the way, that it takes 10 years for you to make money. Since when was it that being in your mid-30s to make a few hundred thousand dollars or a million dollars was like egregiously unfair? I think we have to have a sense of perspective here. We're all going to live into our 80s or 90s. So what is everybody in such a rush for?
Chamath Palihapitiya
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Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
Joichi Ito
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There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.
John Doerr
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In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.
Joichi Ito
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My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
Arthur Rock
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There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.
Fred Wilson
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