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Venture Capitalist Inspirational Quotes (196)

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In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.
Joichi Ito
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Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max.
Fred Wilson
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Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product.
Fred Wilson
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The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success
Fred Wilson
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Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.
Bill Gurley
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If I'm at the University of Georgia and I can't inspire this room full of students, OK, fine. I'm not going to take it personally. Maybe a little bit, but I'll be all right.
Alexis Ohanian
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Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality.
Roelof Botha
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In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
Mark Suster
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The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.
Fred Wilson
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Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.
Arthur Rock
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If I were a snarky Reddit user though, I would say, hypothetically, that that would just be like reading Reddit's Front Page a day later. But I'm not going to go there.
Alexis Ohanian
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There's nothing more invigorating than being deeply involved with a small company and a young team of founders out to do something incredibly special.
Michael Moritz
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The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.
Joichi Ito
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Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.
Arthur Rock
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I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.
Fred Wilson
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Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
Fred Wilson
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Being a startup entrepreneur is not for everybody and it’s not the only desirable career choice. I also know that many people have families and cost obligations that don’t allow the kinds of financial risks associated with starting a company. And for others the hours, stresses and sacrifices in personal relationships are not worth it.
Mark Suster
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I usually tell people that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned by f'ing up at my first company.
Mark Suster
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If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.
Nick Hanauer
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Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.
Arthur Rock
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I think overall it is better for businesses to stay private because you have more latitude, more freedom.
Michael Moritz
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Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.
Fred Wilson
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The half-life of companies is shrinking. So in the same ease in which you can start a company today to disrupt an incumbent, you have to also realize that somebody will do that to you as well just as easily. So if you're not just going to get on top but stay on top, that will require a real prepared mind across many companies.
Chamath Palihapitiya
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Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.
Douglas Leone
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