Naveen Tewari Quotes

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.

I'm just more excited about helping new entrepreneurs create the next Facebook or Google.

When you have a failed pitch, you meet many more venture capitalists than you really want to.

Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.

From the time I was a kid, I was always interested in any and all kinds of new business ideas.

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.

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

So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'

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.

Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

A lot of people have a great business idea; they just need a little push to make it a reality.

Other than playing the game I love, my passion is investing in innovative companies and helping the entrepreneurs behind them succeed.

What's the word to describe the thing that all of us are trying to do, which is to found or work for or invest in a company that is the winner of all winners?

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.

'Bazillion Dollar Club' follows six struggling startups trying to get their products together.

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

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.

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.

We all have ambitions, but only the few achieve. A man thinks of a good thing and says: 'Now if I only had the money I'd put that through.' The word 'if' was a dent in his courage. With character fully established, his plan well thought out, he had only to go to those in command of capital and it would have been forthcoming.

Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.