Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon. — Adam Osborne Copy Share Image
In many cases, women are being harassed by people who are on their board or who are associated with one of their… — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, a lot of Silicon Valley venture capitalists are disconnected from African Americans, Latinos, and other people of color. — Christine Tsai Copy Share Image
When you have a failed pitch, you meet many more venture capitalists than you really want to. — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
The Cloud-Native Enterprise is a venture capitalist creating continuous innovation powered by Cloud Foundry. — Colin Humphreys 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
“Venture capitalists typically reject 994 business plans for every six they agree to fund.” — Anonymous 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
You have venture capitalists. We view them as experts who also help finance your company and give directions and also some pretty… — John T. Chambers Copy Share Image
The chance to interact with big shots is drawing scads of aspiring entrepreneurs to Quora, along with venture capitalists and other Valley… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in… — J. B. Pritzker 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
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
So, we at the FTC have the benefit of getting to hear from a lot of market participants, a lot of businesses,… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
“Venture capitalists make money by buying shares in companies and subsequently selling those shares for more than the original investment. It’s a… — Bill Snow Copy Share Image
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
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
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 had this unbelievable faith that no business has done, quite frankly, and we tripped along the way doing it, but within… — Peter Barris 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
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
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
“Indeed, the recurrent critiques of the lack of diversity of Silicon Valley's VC sector and the companies that it backs can be… — Jonathan Haskel 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
Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world. — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of help... from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, venture capitalists. They've helped me out a ton. — Andre Iguodala 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
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
The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'. — John Doerr Copy Share Image
The most important question venture capitalists ask is what prevents your company from growing faster. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
There's this myopia among American venture capitalists to not go anywhere beyond Silicon Valley and New York. — Dave McClure Copy Share Image
Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative… — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they… — Jose Ferreira 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 goal of venture capitalists is to call the extreme cases correctly, even at the cost of overestimating the prospects of many… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
True innovation takes at least 10 to 15 years, whereas the longest that private venture capitalists are routinely willing to wait is… — Rutger Bregman 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
