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The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.
My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second, at Flatiron... →
The most common way customer financing is done is you sell the customer on the product before you've built it or before you've finished it.... →
Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you... →
If you are successful, you will be cloned. That's life. In fact, it's a sign that you've made it when clones of your website, mobile app... →
So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid... →
Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and... →
We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more... →
All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.
Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.
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.
The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was... →
When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.
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