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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

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

— Peter Thiel

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

The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

— Brad Feld

“Each year about 600,000 start-ups are launched. Less than 0.5 percent attract VC. Of Inc. magazine's annual list of the 500 fastest growing companies…

— Mahendra Ramsinghani

“This implies two very strange rules for VCs. First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire…

— Peter Thiel

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

— Joe Lonsdale

Having information that the other side doesn't have gives VCs an advantage... they take advantage of entrepreneurs who haven't been through this before... they…

— Mitchell Kapor

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

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Basil Peters

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

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

— Kevin Harrington