I'm coming to Silicon Valley to turn up!
There's been entrepreneurs working in the Valley for probably 50-60 years. It's not to say that you can't create that in other places, but I think people are a little bit impatient about creating the next Silicon Valley.
The world's better off the more Silicon Valleys there are and the more scaled companies there are.
For me, seed investing isn't just a good return area but a big part of how we network in Silicon Valley. A lot of our best deals have come from being active in the seed stage.
Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.
One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.
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.
We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.
I tell people in their careers, 'Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.'
Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.
We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.
Silicon Valley is like Wall Street in that it will fill and pursue market opportunities to their logical extremes.
There's no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there's something about Silicon Valley.
San Francisco is a great startup community that you shouldn't even try to model yourself after because it's just special.
Silicon Valley loves a good origin story.
Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible.
Venture capital is about .02% of the U.S. economy invested, and it accounts for 11% of total U.S. jobs and 21% of U.S. economic output. And the reason why is because these companies can get very big, very quickly.
Venture capital is debt. People don't understand that.
Each major wave of technology innovation has given rise to one or more super-unicorns - companies that could change your life to work at or invest in if you're not lucky/genius enough to be a co-founder.
As an investor, I'm always looking for the next great American company. Who will create tomorrow's Twitter, Facebook, or Google?
One can make the case that the New York venture capital industry is rooted in the 21st century, not the 20th.
When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.
An IPO-mad technology boom made 'selling out' itself into an honorific.
Everyone knows that Silicon Valley is chock full of fabulous people who 'do good while doing well.'
The amounts of money in Silicon Valley are staggering.
