Venture Capital Quotes

Venture Capital Quote of the day

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.

Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything.

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.

One role of government is to go where venture capital won't.

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.

Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process.

For venture capital, one of the original principles is people you want to invest in are people who've done it before with someone else's money. Not people who've just came out of business school.

I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.

I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.

S.T.O.P. = Start To Open Possibilities

Amidst all the hype and hoopla around this business, I wanted to emphasize the challenge—it is seductive but the failure rate is very high. And those who fail have no good place to go.