How many of the unicorn companies are really prosaic businesses - like limousine services or renting rooms in your house? The original VC firms from the '70's made their money and established the reputation of their respective brands by leveraging… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share
For venture capital, one of the original principles is people you want to invest in are people who've done it before with someone else's money. Not people who've just came out of business school. — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share Image
How many of the unicorn companies are really prosaic businesses - like limousine services or renting rooms in your house? The original VC firms from the '70's made their money and established the reputation of their respective brands by leveraging big cleverness with small capital, not small cleverness with big capital, and that's what's going on with these unicorns. That… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share
You have to look at the fundamental raison d'être of the business - what is it doing? What's the nature of the business and… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share Image
Basically my point of view on unicorns is that private companies which have sky high valuations, it doesn't really mean anything in the real world until it's marked to market. And there's only two ways things get marked to market in venture capital: Either a company is acquired by another company for cash or marketable security, or it goes public,… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share
Everyone who is inside of an expanding bubble can't imagine another world where the bubble collapses on them. It's unimaginable because they haven't lived… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share Image
We live in a global market and money's fungible and hedge fund private equity is looking for momentum plays, and there ain't no momentum plays in bonds, right? When the interest rates were spiking up or down, well they never really spike down they do spike up though. Something's got to happen, there's got to be motion, the dice has… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share
I think mobile web enabled services can be great business but A): it doesn't apply to everything, I think the markets will ultimately get… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share Image
A lot of the philosophies of the businesses are just 'we're interested in getting customers now and if we're losing money with each customer… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share Image
If you have money draining out of the public equity markets, that inevitably affects the private equity market. They cannot exist going in different… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share Image
The stock market has gone up and if you are stock picking, that's fine, you may do a bit better than the market. But… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share Image
For venture capital, one of the original principles is people you want to invest in are people who've done it before with someone else's… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share Image
A good trader loves an active market, you don't make money when the market is static. — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share Image
