Brock Pierce Quotes

All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

I don't think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital.

I've been lucky enough to be involved in a number of great startups, including eBay and Wikia as an entrepreneur and LinkedIn and Paypal as an investor.

I started angel investing because I like hanging out with entrepreneurs.

Startups are constantly raising money, sometimes before they have even hired a lawyer.

The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.

I focus on consumer Internet. Sometimes it's a working prototype; sometimes it's an idea on a napkin. I don't do a ton of deals a year, and I really like working with startups - it's the only way I can invest. It fits my ADD brain.

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.

New startups embody the creativity, the innovation of young people, and for me, it was and is a very worthwhile experience to interact with them.

With tech startups, it's all loose-goosie. You raise money as you go, often from friends, family and investors.

It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.

I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.

'Bazillion Dollar Club' follows six struggling startups trying to get their products together.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.

There is a lot more young Indian entrepreneurs can do if they are given the money. They have the idea, and I would just like to help them realise it.

Learn to raise capital by any means necessary. That's your primary job as an entrepreneur. You must continually raise capital from family and friends, banks, suppliers, customers and investors.

We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.

Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.

Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.

I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is something I feel strongly about.

For most Indians in America, wealth is not inherited. Neither do we make it as heads of large hedge funds and private equity funds. For us to make it to the top, we have to use our knowhow to create great new technology products and build high-tech companies.

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