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Act now. Act with speed.
John Doerr / Venture Capitalist
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No conflict, no interest.
John Doerr / Venture Capitalist
Conflict
Interest
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Change the way we teach; Empower teachers
John Doerr / Venture Capitalist
Teacher
Empowering
Way
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We all know about blogs and how big they are.
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Bigs
Blogs
Knows
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Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.
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Building
Challenges
Team
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The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.
John Doerr / Venture Capitalist
Next
Users
Wave
Content
Web
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Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.
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Ideas
Team
Winning
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If you can't invent the future, the next best thing is to fund it.
John Doerr / Venture Capitalist
Best Things
Fund
Next
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You have to have great design to be competitive in today’s markets.
John Doerr / Venture Capitalist
Design
Great Design
Today
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Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.
John Doerr / Venture Capitalist
Opportunity
Environmental
Technology
Century
Economic
Green
Could
Economic Opportunity
Largest
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The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'.
John Doerr / Venture Capitalist
Danger
Venture
Venture Capitalists
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There's never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture.
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Accelerate
Venture
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How do you create jobs? Our companies have generated about 350,000 jobs and that's good.
John Doerr / Venture Capitalist
Jobs
Company
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Entrepreneurs do more than anyone thinks possible, with less than anyone thinks possible.
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Entrepreneur
Thinking
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If the reason you’re taking on a mission is for the money you’ll make, I believe you’ll fail.
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Believe
Failing
Reason
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Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.
John Doerr / Venture Capitalist
Blogs
Phenomenon
Reader
Vanity
Wells
Clearly
Writers
Readers
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People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.
John Doerr / Venture Capitalist
Technology
Coming Of Age
Community
People
Meaning
Sign
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If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy.
John Doerr / Venture Capitalist
Business
Climate
Economy
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The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.
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Long
People
Skills
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Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.
John Doerr / Venture Capitalist
Opportunity
Bigger
Century
Economic
Green
Internet
Economic Opportunity
Technologies
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I would staple a green card to the diploma of anyone that graduates with a degree in the physical sciences or engineering in the U.S.
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Cards
Degrees
Engineering
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It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.
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Running
Development
Google
Losing
Site
Unlike
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There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.
John Doerr / Venture Capitalist
Identity
Persona
Thinking
Trends
Users
Content
Express
Large
Market
Trend
Web
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It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.
John Doerr / Venture Capitalist
Available
Broadband
Compelling
Growth
Intellectual
Owners
Rights
Content
Tremendous
Networks
Spur
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They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible.
John Doerr / Venture Capitalist
Access
Tangible
Drawings
Expressions
Gain
Images
Privately
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It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.
John Doerr / Venture Capitalist
Bottles
Consumers
Fiji
Hard
Haul
Plastic
Right Thing
Shopping
Sorry
Steel
Stupid
Two
Water
Does
Do The Right Thing
Glass
Mall
Put
Seem
Selves
Ship
The Right Thing
Tons
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Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs.
John Doerr / Venture Capitalist
Big Deal
Bugs
Designer
Eating
Fuel
Mean
Molecules
Ties
Warm
Chain
Deal
Engineer
Goes
Guess
Optimize
Precisely
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