Joe Lonsdale Quotes

We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.

My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.

One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

I separate the world of startup communities into two constituencies - leaders and feeders. The leaders are entrepreneurs and the feeders everyone else.

I really have become very interested at working with and helping entrepreneurs at the early stages of their growth.

When the kids were growing up, they learned to be independent. I told them, 'As long as you're doing something good, it's worth pursuing.' That's why I invested in them in the first place and gave them as much as I could for their first company, Zip2.

I've always been very passionate about investing time in and sharing my expertise with other entrepreneurs.

Other than playing the game I love, my passion is investing in innovative companies and helping the entrepreneurs behind them succeed.

I've had a lot of help... from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, venture capitalists. They've helped me out a ton.

It's exciting to be able to be part of the block and tackle of building a company from a smaller base.

I turn to people who've been successful running networks, building production companies, building music companies, and people who have done it, and I ask them about their successes. And you will see them light up and give you all the information you need.

It's easier to get funding for a gas station than to start the next Facebook or Twitter in the Mideast.

What's the word to describe the thing that all of us are trying to do, which is to found or work for or invest in a company that is the winner of all winners?

Wayne, Jon, and the SeventySix Capital team are best in class and committed to building successful companies. Together, by leveraging the full weight of our knowledge, expertise and relationships, we can make a huge impact at home in Philadelphia and around the world.

The purpose of the capital formation presentations and roundtable discussions is to create a dialogue with business leaders, economic development organizations, business incubators, and community leaders to promote investment in Montana and support businesses as they start up and/or grow their existing operations.

I'll be a mentor to those who want to create a business, product or service and aren't exactly sure how to do that. To me, it's a true sign of success if I can help someone have a better time of it.

I think it's smart to always keep an eye on the companies that sit within incubator communities, which bring together the skills and expertise needed to grow an enterprise.

In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.

Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.

For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.

I would like to see additional funding for entrepreneurial development programs.

As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.

At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

We need banks and financiers and entrepreneurs to take risks because that's how economies grow over time.