The best talent in the venture industry doesn't work in…

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

— Douglas Leone

When the venture industry started, it was enough to just have money and then it was enough to sort of have this big fuzzy…

— Naval Ravikant

Kauffman Fellows is not necessarily for people just entering the venture industry but for experienced VCs looking to accelerate their growth. The program is…

— Brad Feld

I don't really care what the venture industry thinks.

— Steve Jurvetson

There's nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. What differentiates them…

— Eric Ries

Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their growth almost…

— Alex Berenson

But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from blowing up…

— Jeff Goodell

I'm on the Business Roundtable, the CEOs of the largest 100-odd companies in the country. Most of these people wanted very much to be…

— Henry Silverman

I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that…

— Mike Wilson

I wanted to be a venture capitalist and join Sequoia Capital. They've financed and helped built some really special and enormously successful companies, including…

— Alfred Lin

I've probably done more venture capital deals and expansion financings than I have done private equity deals. But both are the same. Private equity…

— Stephen Pagliuca

There are a lot of good ideas that could benefit from big media. You have a lot of companies that hit a wall and…

— Ross Levinsohn

Getting a traditional pharmaceutical to the market can cost a billion dollars or more. Newer, more tailored and targeted drugs called biologics are even…

— David Mixner

The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies…

— Christina Romer

Most large companies structure their affairs so that they minimize their tax payments. As long as you do it within the law, it's OK.

— Chuck Feeney