Sam Hinkie Quotes

I'm a very active angel investor in a number of different companies.

I'm hard-pressed to think of companies that don't need venture capital that are going after big opportunities. I think, in almost all cases, if they're going after big opportunities, they are going to need to raise quite a bit of money.

Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.

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

I don't know the venture fund terms. I don't know what a seed round is. I want nothing to do with 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 have a mentoring and angel investing programme. We are also talking to the government to help create a VC industry.

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.

We have to develop the whole system of early stage investors and a tax system around it. For every Google that has come on the scene, there are hundred entrepreneurs who never did.

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.

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

Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business.

Investors like to invest based on traction, so it's always better to raise money when you've got more traction than less.

I wish I had invested in the series A of Snapchat and Uber.

When you walk into a room and you're asking someone to give you money to finance an idea, that's never easy.

I had done six or eight traditional angel investments and basically just thought it sucked.

As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

I put together an iPhone app called TrimIt and released that in July 2011. About a month later, the private fund of the Hong Kong billionaire Li-Kashing cold emailed me and expressed an interest to invest, but they didn't realize I was 15. They thought it was a U.K. company with a team.

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.

The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.

One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though, is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology.

I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better.

I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me.