Quotes About Venture Capital

While I wouldn't say that most entrepreneurs find it easy to get funding, there are certainly more people out there funding technology and healthcare companies than in other areas.

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Selling R&D to the government was like taking your venture capital and putting it into a savings account," Noyce declared. "Venturing is venturing; you want to take the risk.

A $100,000,000 venture capital fund was set up solely for products using a specific computer language.

There are not enough female VCs in an industry so traditionally dominated by males. There are not enough female mentors who are actively engaged with female founders. We need women VCs and entrepreneurs to stand up, get loud, and help guide their peers.

There are whole industries, such as venture capital, that are currently organized around the belief that innovation is essentially a game of playing the odds. But it's time to topple that tired paradigm. I've spent twenty years gathering evidence so that you can put your time, energy, and resources into creating products and services that you can predict, in advance, customers will be eager to hire. Leave relying on luck to the other guys.

The evidence summarized in this matrix may be of some use to venture capital investors, as a general way to frame the riskiness of proposed investments. It suggests that start-ups which propose to commercialize a breakthrough technology that is essentially sustaining in character have a far lower likelihood of success than start-ups whose vision is to use proven technology to disrupt an established industry with something that is simpler, more reliable, and more convenient.

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

Startups are constantly raising money, sometimes before they have even hired a lawyer.

We use convertible notes a lot at our fund - 8VC - so often that we just call them 'notes' to save time.

Venture capital, a realm that had just begun in Silicon Valley with Arthur Rock's financing of Intel

The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula.

The best training ground in the world is Silicon Valley and the tech space.

For me, seed investing isn't just a good return area but a big part of how we network in Silicon Valley. A lot of our best deals have come from being active in the seed stage.

That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a 'real job.' That felt like a black and white world, and I wanted Technicolor.

When you're fundraising for a venture fund, you're supposed to not talk.

If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.

So much of venture capital is pattern recognition.

Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.

I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.

I was very early on in taking venture capital abroad: to Europe first, then Asia.

Arcadia was a typical venture capital deal, but I'm the adventurer and the capitalist.

I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.