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Some big banks remain wary of venture capital.
So much of venture capital is pattern recognition.
Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.
Venture capital is debt. People don't understand that.
Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business.
Given my venture capital background, I know the tech sector well.
Historically venture capital funds have only allowed elite investors in.
Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.
We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.
There's never been a good period of venture capital when prices weren't high.
Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
I don't think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital.
The venture capital world is completely stacked against minority entrepreneurs.
I was very early on in taking venture capital abroad: to Europe first, then Asia.
Arcadia was a typical venture capital deal, but I'm the adventurer and the capitalist.
Clearly, there is a gender imbalance when it comes to venture capital and entrepreneurship.
There are not many people from top-tier venture capital firms who are focused on the seed stage.
I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.
Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.
I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.
I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me.
One can make the case that the New York venture capital industry is rooted in the 21st century, not the 20th.
I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.
There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.
Venture capital is an inherently optimistic form of investment - which is both its primary strength and its primary weakness.
Nominally, I stated a company. Practically, it's a venture capital firm that allows me to be an investor in early stage companies.
Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.
I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.
I'll say this: I can't think of one instance in my 20 years in venture capital in which I have wanted to sell a company before the entrepreneur.
The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.
There's almost too much venture capital in India - there are issues with seed capital, but for venture capital, there's a lot money chasing deals here.
One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then applying them to others.
Techstars has done a great job accelerating and providing venture capital to the most promising companies to make the biggest long-term economic impact.
Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible.
Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.
I think it's embarrassing for our industry that we have such low diversity across senior-level management at all of the mainstream, top-tier venture capital firms.
As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.
Prior to SunRun, I was headed toward a career in venture capital and then realized I wanted to apply my knowledge of finance more directly to helping change the world.
We need to divorce ourselves from venture capital as an occupation and focus on using capital as a way to take really big bets on things that just seem totally audacious.
I've probably done more venture capital deals and expansion financings than I have done private equity deals. But both are the same. Private equity companies have also built jobs.
It is clear as you look at the team why Data Point Capital has so quickly become one of the premier venture capital firms. I look forward to adding to the firm's very bright future.
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.
Whatever the potential pitfalls, banks are increasingly enthusiastic about venture capital, particularly in new companies with strong prospects in fields like health care and technology.
So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster.
There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.
I am a partner at CrunchFund, a venture capital firm with investments in many startups around the world. I am also a limited partner in many other venture funds which have their own startup investments.
I succeeded at venture capital because, for years, I rarely thought about or spent time on anything else. Anything less than that unmitigated full commitment leaves me feeling frustrated and ineffective.
When the venture capital industry invests, it's usually because they sense there is money in them hills. And often it takes a high-profile winner to wake everyone up in the category. SpaceX is that company.