Advantage Quote by Mitchell Kapor

VCs are used to being the gatekeepers of capital. There's this old narrative of entrepreneurs going hat in hand begging VCs for money. That…

— Olaf Carlson-Wee

We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.

— Marc Andreessen

In an increasingly competitive technology world, VCs must work more and more closely with portfolio companies to develop superior technology, talent, and operations.

— Joe Lonsdale

“VCs usually spend even more time on the most problematic companies”

— Peter Thiel

Great VCs are more than mere investors; they are often seasoned leaders who have built companies themselves.

— Joe Lonsdale

The bad news is that most traditional VCs have a youth bias that they will state very overtly. You always wonder if that's a…

— Steve Jurvetson

“As VCs invest more and more money in each company, they have to wait longer and longer before they can exit.”

— Basil Peters

The VC industry has benefited greatly from technology and the Internet, so I see how the VC industry is going to get disintermediated, decentralized,…

— Brock Pierce

Inasmuch as there is a useful purpose to what we do as VCs, I tend to think it's our duty not only to mentor…

— Joe Lonsdale

Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.

— Sam Walton

Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company'... So we…

— Sabeer Bhatia

If you look at where the tried and true of Silicon Valley VC's are investing, it's in people who understand what it takes, who've…

— Tony Fadell