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Google is addictive.
Alan Patricof / Investor
Google
Addictive
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I love art; I collect mostly modern art.
Alan Patricof / Investor
Modern Art
Collect
Mostly
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I love art, I collect mostly modern art.
Alan Patricof / Investor
Art
Modern
Modern Art
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I got my first job at a firm called Naess & Thomas.
Alan Patricof / Investor
Firm
Job First First Job
Thomas
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It's hard to make small investments when you're a billion-dollar fund.
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Fund
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I was very early on in taking venture capital abroad: to Europe first, then Asia.
Alan Patricof / Investor
Asia
Venture
Venture Capital
Abroad
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It's tough, no matter how good your technology is, to police every single comment coming up.
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Comment
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I think CSR, corporate social responsibility, is something that is becoming front and center.
Alan Patricof / Investor
Becoming
Corporate
Responsibility
Social
Social Responsibility
Responsibility Social Responsibility
Center
Front
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The Enterprise Value Tax is unprecedented, punitive, and has no justification in the tax code.
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Code
Justification
Unprecedented
Punitive
Tax Code
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We've done education nonprofit through our history, and maybe the profit motive will be helpful.
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Motive
Profit
Nonprofit
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My philosophy, in a nutshell, is to wipe out the greatest amount of risk with the least amount of money.
Alan Patricof / Investor
Amount
Risk
Wipe
Least
Nutshell
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The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter.
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Easy
Hereafter
Secret
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The only thing... in-store retailing has that online doesn't have is it has the ability to touch, smell, feel, and experience.
Alan Patricof / Investor
Ability
Online
Retailing
Smell
Touch
The Only Thing
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In times of huge fiscal deficits, no new revenues can be ignored, and renouncing any becomes well nigh politically impossible.
Alan Patricof / Investor
Ignored
Deficits
Fiscal
Nigh
Revenues
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Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' - to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.
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Capitalist
Entrepreneur
Venture
Investor
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Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' -- to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.
Alan Patricof / Investor
Running
Entrepreneur
Wish
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Cloud computing eliminates capital expenditure, so you can go global very quickly - you don't have to have extensive servers in every country.
Alan Patricof / Investor
Computing
Capital
Cloud
Expenditure
Extensive
Quickly
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All American consumers have the same needs - to buy great consumer products, with savings and value, and with the convenience of easy delivery.
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Delivery
Products
American Consumers
Buy
Consumer
Value
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The advent of interactive communications has created an inflection point where it's economical to provide education differently than in the past.
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Advent
Interactive
Communications
Differently
Economical
In The Past
Provide
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In my 40-plus years as a venture capitalist, I have come to appreciate the certainty a healthy economy provides for businesses both large and small.
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Capitalist
Certainty
Venture
Healthy Economy
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Your initial instincts about investments and people are usually correct. We do a lot of due diligence in this business and most of the time it comes out where we started.
Alan Patricof / Investor
Diligence
Time Business People
Time Business Your
Instincts
Correct
Due
Initial
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Our national debt poses a threat to all Americans and is particularly troublesome both for well-established businesses and for those seeking to enter into the marketplace.
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Debt
Marketplace
National Debt
Seeking
Troublesome
All Americans
Businesses
Enter
Particularly
Poses
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As a venture capitalist, I invest in people and ideas that are fresh, vibrant, and willing to disrupt the market. As a political donor, I like to see the same energy in the people I support.
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Capitalist
Energy
Ideas
Support
Venture
Willing
Invest
Disrupt
Donor
Market
Vibrant
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As someone who understands what's needed for entrepreneurs and start-up companies to succeed, I can tell you there is nothing more integral to their success than operating in a stable financial system.
Alan Patricof / Investor
Financial
Financial System
Needed
Stable
Succeed
Companies
Entrepreneurs
Integral
Operating
Start-Up
Understands
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I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.
Alan Patricof / Investor
Jobs
Asking
Available
Firm
Stairs
Way
Buildings
Elevator
Old-Fashioned Way
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I didn't understand the culture and what Starbucks was really about. It wasn't a coffee shop. It was really a way of life... we suffer from thinking that since we have it in New York, or it won't work in New York, that it won't work some other place. That's a discipline we keep trying to improve.
Alan Patricof / Investor
Coffee
Discipline
Starbucks
Life Work Thinking
Shop
Suffer
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It's actually a pretty basic concept: when businesses feel secure and confident, they are more likely to grow, hire, and invest. Conversely, when the economy is unstable, businesses often become much more risk averse, and in many cases, they're forced to make undesirable cuts that affect their bottom line.
Alan Patricof / Investor
Bottom
Bottom Line
Cases
Economy
Risk
Secure
Undesirable
Unstable
Affect
Averse
Basic
Confident
Businesses
Invest
Concept
Cuts
Forced
Hire
Likely
Line
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Like many of my friends and associates, I am a life-long Democrat. We have a rock-solid commitment to supporting the political party that we so strongly believe offers the most promising vision of America: one that recognizes the proper role of government, the importance of compassion, and the value of diversity.
Alan Patricof / Investor
Associates
Commitment
Compassion
Democrat
Importance
Offers
Vision
Government Political Believe
Life Long
Political Party
Promising
Strongly
Supporting
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