Maelle Gavet Quotes

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.

Even if you're a relatively small player in search, that can still mean a company that's worth several billion dollars.

Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.

One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

While seed deals have gotten easy, Series A negotiations still often feel like the death of 1,000 cuts.

You have venture capitalists. We view them as experts who also help finance your company and give directions and also some pretty candid discussions about what you have to do better.

Once my ears were open to hearing mentions of 'Shark Tank', I was surprised by how many people in our world, even in our industry, tech and finance, loved the show.

I remember going out to raise my Series A and ending up with multiple term sheets when I had gone to Silicon Valley probably four times at that point and coming back with nothing.

The basketball great Kobe Bryant started his own venture-capital firm. LeBron James has rebranded himself as not just an athlete but also an investor and entrepreneur.

To an entrepreneur, closing a financing often feels like the end of a marathon. It's actually the starting gun.

Capital isn't hard to find; intuition, yes.

I had made a great deal of money, and I was proud of it. I was a capitalist.

I have always regrets about selling anything of Reed Hastings because he's really a good manager and a great capitalist.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.

Money is available from investors as long as you have a great business model and a talented leader.

Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business.

An IPO-mad technology boom made 'selling out' itself into an honorific.

You have to put a market value on what you do.

You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.

I wanted to be a billionaire.

When you're fundraising for a venture fund, you're supposed to not talk.

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

When I started InMobi, I was on the road raising funds. I faced 20 rejections. But when I got the funds, they came from best venture capitalists.

I got an album concept called 'Exit Strategy,' that might be one of my last ones. It's a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don't wait till you're five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.