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Venture Capitalist Inspirational Quotes (196)

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The weird thing about reddit is that, for a community its size - now I'm no longer at reddit, but the public traffic numbers that they put out are, I think with the site about eight million unique visitors a month, or every 30 days, which is a fairly big site.
Alexis Ohanian
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It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.
Alexis Ohanian
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If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented.
Fred Wilson
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I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.
Brad Feld
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The goal shouldn't be to be the next Silicon Valley (there'll always only be one of those) - it's to be your own startup community.
Alexis Ohanian
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Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.
Fred Wilson
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Even if you have no interest in starting a company, having the experience of having ideas and doing them, that's muscle to exercise because that's what people are going to want to see. That's what makes you different.
Alexis Ohanian
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I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.
Michael Moritz
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Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present.
Joichi Ito
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Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.
Alexis Ohanian
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When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
Joichi Ito
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You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.
Arthur Rock
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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
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Profiles aren't journalism.
Fred Wilson
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You can go back 150 years and literally find the same people saying the same thing in the same way. If we have to pay you more, it will be bad for you. And that's because saying that is a much more polite way of saying, I'm rich, you're poor, and I would prefer to keep it that way.
Nick Hanauer
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Money is information, like bits.
Fred Wilson
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The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'.
John Doerr
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If you care about real change, deep structural change, that involves politics, and all politics is friction. It takes leadership, and the willingness to create that friction, that leads to social change.
Nick Hanauer
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All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.
Michael Moritz
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Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.
Roelof Botha
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Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.
Fred Wilson
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Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web.
Fred Wilson
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Because it's so empowering, I want people to think about being entrepreneurial regardless. They don't have to start companies, but that's what makes them great employees, that's what makes them great citizens.
Alexis Ohanian
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Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.
John Doerr
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