Quotes About Venture

Silicon Valley in the late 1990s was the closest that business has ever come to resembling a child's chemistry experiment.

The Valley was a little experiment of capitalism with too much capital.

Once you were let into the Great Society of Sand Hill Road, you were given first crack at these miraculous enterprises at a small fraction of the cost to Wall Street investment bankers—never mind the general investing public.

Success is about smart risk management, not about wild risk taking.

On such ventures as these one is inclined to forget much, as one forgets a dream.

always curious why Rachel and I never ventured into a life like hers and her vivid example of independence as well as empathy for everything around her.

And so each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate

Who's to say that gamblers don't really understand it better than anyone else? Isn't everything worthwhile a gamble? Can't good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?

The foolish will tread where the wise will not," Holmes replied. "If we waited for the wisdom of this venture, Douglas and I would still be in London." "To fools, then!" Little Huan exclaimed. "To fools!" the others declared.

Product 1' was really my introduction into the game.

I'm one of the first invention capitalists.

When you sell a prospecting concession, you're only selling potential. You pay tolls for the right to invest and look for something.

I wouldn't ask other people to invest in my race if I wasn't willing to invest in it myself.

I'm not a woman in the 'Den,' I'm a Dragon, we're all there to invest, it has nothing to do with gender.

VCs invest in innovation and disruption, but how often do they innovate themselves?

Personally, I have invested in around ten U.S. companies and will continue to do so. That doesn't give me a strong experience in the American market. But I have an understanding of the public.

I invested in Uber in 2011 when it was only in San Francisco.

There simply isn't a way to do the show without investing in a bunch more companies.

I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.

I won't say that 'shotgun' is the word I'd prefer to use, but we certainly do a lot of investments.

I've learned that all investments have risk.

It's hard to make small investments when you're a billion-dollar fund.

We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.

We like to be the largest outside investor, and the first outside investor.