Venture capital Quote by Randall E. Stross

Dying venture firms are like the walking dead. They can have years of staggering around with stakes in still active portfolio companies, hoping they're…

— Sarah Lacy

Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.

— Anonymous

Once you start to spiral a company down, you lose the momentum.

— Mike Ashley

Venture capital is an inherently optimistic form of investment - which is both its primary strength and its primary weakness.

— Neil Blumenthal

So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid…

— Fred Wilson

Startups should be - if you graph their financial performance, it should be what's called a J curve. You start out at zero. you're…

— Chamath Palihapitiya

Venture capital is debt. People don't understand that.

— Heidi Roizen

Venture-capital firms invest in trends by projecting returns. But most projections are pretty much bogus, and research shows that experts are no better at…

— Vinod Khosla

Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business.

— Steve Jurvetson

“every single company in a good venture portfolio must have the potential to succeed at vast scale.”

— Peter Thiel

Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.

— Fred Wilson

For every company that sees the value of their capital go up, there's another company that has been disrupted, and the value of their…

— Charles L. Evans