It doesn't need to be consistently concentrated in these venture-capital funds and things like that. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
ICG wasn't an index fund so much as a collection of venture-capital investments focused on so-called business-to-business Internet companies. — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level. — Al-Waleed bin Talal Copy Share Image
Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently… — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds. — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase. — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
My buddy Alex Blumberg learned - he was very public about his learning process, and I know for a fact because we… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
“The collective value of a typical venture capital portfolio will go down before it goes up—the pattern is called the J curve—because… — Randall E. Stross Copy Share Image
When I started Biocon in 1978, the obstacles I needed to navigate were manifold - ranging from infrastructural hurdles to issues related… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Copy Share Image
From NASA putting a man on the moon to DARPA developing what later became the Internet, the U.S. government, through a host… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
Is the investment community critical to our economic success? Yes. Free markets, innovation, access to credit, venture capital, and strong labor rights… — Reshma Saujani Copy Share Image
These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Northleaf is delighted to have been chosen to manage the new fund. We look forward to implementing the fund's long-term strategy of… — Jeff Pentland Copy Share Image
“Facebook, the best investment in our 2005 fund, returned more than all the others combined. Palantir, the second-best investment, is set to… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
Techstars has done a great job accelerating and providing venture capital to the most promising companies to make the biggest long-term economic… — David Cohen Copy Share Image
We need to divorce ourselves from venture capital as an occupation and focus on using capital as a way to take really… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
I have made a living for myself from my networking by endorsing restaurants, resorts, artists, films, assorted venture capital deals, because some… — Sonja Morgan Copy Share Image
I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd… — Roelof Botha Copy Share Image
After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U.S. foreign policy, the State Department… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The innovation industries are rapidly going global. In five years, more than 50% of venture capital returns will come from markets outside… — Jim Breyer Copy Share Image
There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry… — Dan Levitan Copy Share Image
When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around,… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
One thing I'm so grateful for is sidestepping the usual venture capital, private equity route. My friends who have gone that way… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
If I had taken money from, say, venture capital, they would have wanted a certain return in a certain time period. McDonald's,… — Steve Ells Copy Share Image
I think I would have kept in contact with venture capital investors and entrepreneurs. I'm sure staying involved as something like a… — Masayoshi Son Copy Share Image
Startups run by women still receive venture capital funding at a much lower rate than companies run by men, and there are… — Randi Zuckerberg 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… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share Image
I would have loved to invest in Salesforce when I was active in venture. I didn't know the founder, Marc Benioff, well… — Aneel Bhusri Copy Share Image
You know what works in venture capital? A group of incredibly smart, connected people who have the financial wherewithal and risk appetite… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
I think the development of the venture capital system has been an example of something which is a successful improvement in risk-bearing.… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Venture capital is about .02% of the U.S. economy invested, and it accounts for 11% of total U.S. jobs and 21% of… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
I am a partner at CrunchFund, a venture capital firm with investments in many startups around the world. I am also a… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
When I first started as an angel investor, I was excited to start investing in startups - but I didn't know much.… — Gil Penchina Copy Share Image
If the business were a play, Act One is: Woohoo, bright and bushy-tailed. We're going to make something great! Act Two is:… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
In a world with many blockchains and hundreds of tradable tokens built on top of them, entire industries are automated through software,… — Olaf Carlson-Wee Copy Share Image
Venture capital has peaked in terms of its appetite, in terms of how much money it wants to put in. So now… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share Image
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