Vince Cable Quotes

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

We want to see more sources of alternative finance, from innovations in factoring such as MarketInvoice or in peer-to-peer lending such as Funding Circle which Labour local authorities are now using to support and invest in local businesses.

Generally, you want to raise capital either when you have to or when it's really easy. If the company desperately needs money, and they can't figure out any other way, then they need to raise money. Or if someone's offering you easy money on good terms, you should take it because you can use it for good things.

Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards.

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

While I wouldn't say that most entrepreneurs find it easy to get funding, there are certainly more people out there funding technology and healthcare companies than in other areas.

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

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

It is very hip to be an angel investor now. There used to be a dozen, two dozen guys at these demo days writing checks. Now there are hundreds.

Most startup entrepreneurs unnecessarily spend half their time and give up half their equity in search of funding from angel investors and venture capitalists. Tens of millions of dollars are available to them for free from partners who not only don't want their equity, they don't even want to be paid back.

I like most of the venture capitalists I know; they're smart, well-intended guys who genuinely enjoy helping entrepreneurs succeed. And I love venture capital and investment capital of all categories - its economic impact is proven. The more of it the better.

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.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

If you're a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business.

There aren't many sources of money in San Diego, apart from local partnerships and local investors. It's pretty starkly polarized to Silicon Valley.

The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.

Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.

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

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

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 wanted a CFO with public company experience; I needed an HR department, new office space, and a board which could help me grow the business. Insight, the private equity firm I chose, helped me with all that.

I'm invested in about 13 private companies. I've advised probably another 50 private companies.

We have a mentoring and angel investing programme. We are also talking to the government to help create a VC industry.

The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit.

Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.