Naval Ravikant Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive.

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.

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

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.

Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.

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

I don't know the venture fund terms. I don't know what a seed round is. I want nothing to do with it.

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.

It can be difficult to find investment for a new business, particularly one which is highly innovative or breaks new ground.

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

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

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

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.

Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.

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

I think entrepreneurs should demand transparency for startup accelerators.

When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.

I went public too soon. Stay private as long as you can.

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.

You have to raise $100 million, probably, to be serious.