Quotes About Venture Capital

At the end of the day, VCs have to provide their limited partners with great returns, or they aren't going to be able to raise another fund.

I think a lot of folks feel like Uber was a company they missed out on. Sequoia passed on us three times.

Sean Parker, and Half.com founder Josh Kopelman—not to

Those in technology who can afford to stay in Silicon Valley all know it as one of the most beautiful places to live in the world, but a wariness has sunk in as folks from other walks of life are forced to leave: coffee shops are wall-to-wall with aspiring entrepreneurs, and restaurants buzz with talk of valuations and venture capital.

When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.

I wish more LPs would blog to help VCs and entrepreneurs understand them better.

There is a big difference between using V.C. money that you blow and spending your own personal money.

When you get into investing, your default stance should be 'No,' because most deals suck. Most deals won't make money. Most companies will fail.

I had no idea that Black women only get 0.2 percent of all venture capital investments until I was looking and saying, "Where's the money?

Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.

Some big banks remain wary of venture capital.

The collective value of a typical venture capital portfolio will go down before it goes up—the pattern is called the J curve—because the companies that are not going to survive die before the best performers begin to shine and pull the value of the portfolio up with them. That,

Business? It's quite simple it's other people's money.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

I think just calling up a VC and saying 'I want to pitch you' is an enormous waste of time.

Venture capital is an inherently optimistic form of investment - which is both its primary strength and its primary weakness.

Most VC firms are looking to bring in women because of the great consumer cycle.

VC firms are... responsible for the full life cycle of a company: they find it, help it grow, open up a Rolodex, and sell it.

We've talked with over a dozen VCs and angel investors over the years. But we've never clicked with any of them until Andreessen. During our initial meeting, we were bouncing ideas around about where Imgur could go.

80 percent of founders are forced out of their companies by their venture capital investors

For instance, even though entrepreneurs in technology often know the statistics that about 80 percent of founders are forced out of their companies by their venture capital investors, I have never heard anyone tell me that this would happen to them. In

I would have loved to invest in Salesforce when I was active in venture. I didn't know the founder, Marc Benioff, well enough, and he didn't really rely on venture capital, but I remember the first time I met him and got to talk about Salesforce when they were still private. I thought, 'Damn, that is going to be a huge company.'

If you ask any VC what it takes to be successful, you'll get a description that sounds a lot like himself. There's a preference for self-similar individuals.

Most firms do two investments a year. They may talk to between 50 and 100 and do a couple, whereas we're talking to thousands and doing several hundred.