If your startup is only in the development or idea stage, there is almost no better predictor of failure - I mean, utter failure, scorched-earth bankruptcy - than raising too much money in the first round. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
We believe strongly that all meaningful change comes from entrepreneurs. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
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… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a driving machine on my daily commute; I want to be driven by a machine. — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
History has proven time and again that downturns are the best time to invest in new start-ups. You get good deals and find a… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
I do think there are more and more entrepreneurs all the time that think big. Those are the people we should be finding and… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
