Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
"(Big name research firm) says our market will be $50 billion in 2010." Every entrepreneur has a few slides about how the… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker.… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else. — David Heinemeier Hansson Copy Share Image
Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.… — Michael Malone Copy Share Image
Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society. — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
We weren’t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. It’s open source and it’s free. We weren’t trying to take over the… — Blake Ross Copy Share Image
We have the greatest resource universities in the world, the only place in the world. We have the most productive workforce in… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The Cloud-Native Enterprise is a venture capitalist creating continuous innovation powered by Cloud Foundry. — Colin Humphreys Copy Share Image
At a basic level venture capitalists are arbitrageurs: they have access to more information than those with the capital, and access to… — Ben Thompson Copy Share Image
People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling,… — Gurbaksh Chahal Copy Share Image
Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: "I need money to buy tools."… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
The world is a big place. There are lots of smart people in it. Entrepreneurs are kidding themselves if they think they… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist,… — William H. Gates, Sr Copy Share Image
The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'. — John Doerr Copy Share Image
That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
"Patents make our product defensible." The optimal number of times to use the P word in a presentation is one. Just once,… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, experience counts for something. So you'd expect entrepreneurs who've been through the ups and downs of a tech startup to… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
