Jamshyd Godrej Quotes

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.

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

The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.

Our main funders... a lot of them are entrepreneurs and technologists themselves as well and familiar with iterative development processes.

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

We own only a small percentage in Omnivore, but we manage it. It is basically a venture capital fund to help newer enterprises and provide them with the funding they require in their early stages of development.

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.

Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.

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.

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

ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.

I do think there are more and more entrepreneurs all the time that think big. Those are the people we should be finding and funding. Most of them will fail, but the ones who succeed will change the world, and that is progress.

India is a fertile ground for entrepreneurs, given its large pool of world-class talent and resources. India's ability to generate wealth and create social good will come if we let entrepreneurs flourish by encouraging and enabling innovation.

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

I love the ingenuity of British entrepreneurs.

Nominally, I stated a company. Practically, it's a venture capital firm that allows me to be an investor in early stage companies.

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.

I think the development of the venture capital system has been an example of something which is a successful improvement in risk-bearing. It doesn't exactly remove the risks at the beginning, but at least creates greater rewards at a slightly later stage and therefore encourages, say, small companies to engage in technologically risky enterprises.

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

Our experience is that most entrepreneurs are able to attract debt, even for risky and early stage investments. There are investors who provide debt, but very few who fund through equity.

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.

Relatively few people should start companies.

We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will.