We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
There I was - 20 years old, living in Ireland, and I'd never heard the word 'venture capitalist.' But I'd said that I wanted a job that involved a lot of negotiation, a lot of yelling at people on the phone, and for it to be high-risk, high-reward.
I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.
Rich dad went on to explain that the world was filled with different types of entrepreneurs. There are entrepreneurs who are big and small, rich and poor, honest and crooked, for-profit and not-for-profit, saint and sinner, small town and international, and successes and failures. He said, "The word entrepreneur is a big word and it means different things to different people."
When I first started as an angel investor, I was excited to start investing in startups - but I didn't know much. I couldn't tell the good ones from the bad; I didn't understand all these venture capital terms, so I would invest somewhat blindly.
Given my venture capital background, I know the tech sector well.
It's very important to me to have a female venture capitalist.
VCs are good at asking questions.
I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
Ben Horowitz, he's the guy. He's really big into hip-hop, and he's a brainiac.
I wanted to be a venture capitalist and join Sequoia Capital. They've financed and helped built some really special and enormously successful companies, including Google, Yahoo, Paypal, YouTube, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, and also Zappos.
Vinod Khosla is best known for shunning convention and taking massive risks on companies he calls 'black swans' -companies with a near-complete chance of failure. But, if they succeed, the world will be forever changed.
I don't think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital.
I've been an entrepreneur and venture capitalist in the cryptocurrency industry for a long time, working with numerous projects.
Arcadia was a typical venture capital deal, but I'm the adventurer and the capitalist.
I remember looking up to most any venture capitalist as someone who could make my little company happen with a single million-dollar check.
If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.
By day, I'm a venture capitalist. On weekends, I love rockets.
Anyone can be an entrepreneur. All it takes is a little drive and ambition.
I'm a venture capitalist. I like to say my job is to help and support entrepreneurs. I can play a leadership role, but my organization can't be the leader.
Techstars has done a great job accelerating and providing venture capital to the most promising companies to make the biggest long-term economic impact.
Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: "I need money to buy tools." You flunked the IQ test, I mean every tool that you need is free!
I'll say this: I can't think of one instance in my 20 years in venture capital in which I have wanted to sell a company before the entrepreneur.
An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.
