26 Quotes About Venture-capital

My book is not for everyone in the venture capital and entrepreneurial world, and that’s okay. If you try to please everybody and worry about offending anybody, nothing is going to happen. You might make some money, but you certainly won’t create wealth.

Deliverables are the sum total of the goals of a nation's knowledge econony

Deliverables are the sum total of the goals of a nation's Knowledge Economy.

I got into business to help others achieve “self-reliance through self-employment” (the slogan of my first real company - an international mentor venture capital enterprise). ⁣

S.T.O.P. = Start To Open Possibilities

Each year about 600,000 start-ups are launched. Less than 0.5 percent attract VC. Of Inc. magazine's annual list of the 500 fastest growing companies in the United States assessed over a decade (1997–2007), less than 20 percent of companies were venture backed” -“62.4 percent of VC investments were completely lost while 3.1 percent of the investments accounted for 53 percent of the profits for roughly 600 investments

Amidst all the hype and hoopla around this business, I wanted to emphasize the challenge—it is seductive but the failure rate is very high. And those who fail have no good place to go.

You don't have to be a millionaire to act on stock markets.

The numbers should speak for themselves, but they don’t. Growth metrics are the misunderstood teenagers of the tech world with murky intentions.