Joe Lonsdale Quotes

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

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'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.

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

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.

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.

I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.

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.

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.

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

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

Venture capital is debt. People don't understand that.

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

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

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.

Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive.

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.

Whatever the potential pitfalls, banks are increasingly enthusiastic about venture capital, particularly in new companies with strong prospects in fields like health care and technology.

Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they think can be turned around by fixing a few basic things.

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 thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.