David Cohen Quotes

The time is coming when all businesses will have to be done with glass pockets.

We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.

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

When you're building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.

Don't go public before you can be public.

Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

Lots of businesses built in the early 1990s were not very transparent, not only by Russians, but also by foreigners.

If my company spends money, it should be disclosed to the shareholders and how it was spent. With my personal money, I can do anything I want. But company money should be disclosed.

It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.

I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency: that people have to really not just know but understand what they're buying and selling.

I hope we’re on the road to more truth-telling to investors.

Often, entrepreneurs don't build a board until they are forced to by their VCs when they raise their first financing round. This is dumb, as you are missing the opportunity to add at least one person to the team who - as a board member - can help you navigate the early process of building your company and raising that first round.

The idea of investing in entrepreneurs who are building things from scratch, where I can participate in their dream, was very, very exciting to me.

Before Blockchain Capital, I was cranking out startups like an incubator.

I have had no role whatsoever in relation to any investigation of Burisma, or any of its officers. I explicitly limited my role to focus on corporate governance best practices to facilitate Burisma's desire to expand globally.

You need to begin to network with angels and VCs while you are still ideating. It is easier to ask someone you know for funding than a stranger. Build your financial network by attending as many industry functions and reaching out for advice from experts online.

Some incubators, like Y Combinator and TechStars, were started by successful entrepreneurs wishing to help the next generation learn from their experiences. Other programs, such as Viterbi Startup Garage and Austin Technology Incubator, were created by universities to help young entrepreneurs bridge the knowledge gap from student to funded company.

I would rather be responsible and accountable and help to reward the public shareholders going ahead.

A lot of people think if you just had more process and more compliance -- checks and doublechecks and so forth -- you could create a better result in the world. Well, Berkshire has had practically no process. We had hardly any internal auditing until they forced it on us. We just try to operate in a seamless web of deserved trust and be careful whom we trust.

We want to enable Start-Ups and make India no 1 in this field. Start-Up India and Stand-Up India!

I would deal with President Trump's business no different than I would deal with any other business that comes before the committee.

I think co-working spaces, incubators, and accelerators outside of the Bay Area do a lot to foster a local startup scene - which is really important for early founders, but I also think that exposure to the Bay Area is extremely valuable for startups.

There are positives and negatives to publicly traded and private companies.

What Techstars is fundamentally a global ecosystem in which entrepreneurs are enabled and empowered to bring new technologies to the market.

By the beginning of the 21st century, entrepreneurs, led by Web and mobile startups, began to seek and develop their own management tools.