Quotes About Venture

Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business.

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.

Given my venture capital background, I know the tech sector well.

I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.

There are not many people from top-tier venture capital firms who are focused on the seed stage.

We are seeing entrepreneurs issuing their own blockchain-based tokens to raise money for their networks, sidestepping the traditional, exclusive world of venture capital altogether. The importance of this cannot be overstated - in this new world, there are no companies, just protocols.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects.

I am a partner at CrunchFund, a venture capital firm with investments in many startups around the world. I am also a limited partner in many other venture funds which have their own startup investments.

One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then applying them to others.

Inspirational content really resonates, like how to raise venture capital.

All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.

We need to divorce ourselves from venture capital as an occupation and focus on using capital as a way to take really big bets on things that just seem totally audacious.

When people start talking about venture capital and finances and how to create this and do that, a lot of it, I swear, it's like sitting in an escrow meeting when all you want to do is buy a house, and you're signing 50 pieces of paper, but you have no idea what they're talking about.

I'll say this: I can't think of one instance in my 20 years in venture capital in which I have wanted to sell a company before the entrepreneur.

When I first started as an angel investor, I was excited to start investing in startups - but I didn't know much. I couldn't tell the good ones from the bad; I didn't understand all these venture capital terms, so I would invest somewhat blindly.

Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.

I'm hard-pressed to think of companies that don't need venture capital that are going after big opportunities. I think, in almost all cases, if they're going after big opportunities, they are going to need to raise quite a bit of money.

I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me.

We own only a small percentage in Omnivore, but we manage it. It is basically a venture capital fund to help newer enterprises and provide them with the funding they require in their early stages of development.