Douglas Leone Quotes
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In a downturn, aggressive PR and communications strategy is key.
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The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.
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You meet with a CEO or founder. You talk about sales, engineering, product management and give some ideas or suggestions. And the founder quickly understands…
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We want people who come from humble backgrounds and have a need to win.
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A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.
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The trick is, a market has to be nonexistent when you start. If the market is large early on, you will have too many competitors.…
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If you choose a market that already exists, say, networking equipment, you have to compete with an established company like Cisco. Even if your product…
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Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.
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I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.
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We like companies that can get big and powerful on $50 million or less and not two, three, four or five billion.
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You have to be willing to risk things; otherwise, somebody else will put you out of business.
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Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.
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We work as a team. I think having the individual being shown as a star actually creates problems internally. We encourage all our investors to…
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If I could press a button and have all of Sequoia Capital on the Midas List, I would choose to do that over a honoring…
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We see China as a large market opportunity with similar cyclical economic cycles that occur throughout every economy.
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I routinely make trips to China and India where we have offices to continue to maintain the linkages that are necessary to run a successful…
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Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen.
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Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.
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