A Quote by John Doerr

The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'.

John Doerr

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John Doerr
American - Businessman
Born: June 29, 1951

The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace.

Bob Simon

Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.

Scott Adams

I like most of the venture capitalists I know; they're smart, well-intended guys who genuinely enjoy helping entrepreneurs succeed. And I love venture capital and investment capital of all categories - its economic impact is proven. The more of it the better.

Andrew Yang

Venture capitalists don't pay attention to you unless you have an app or a widget.

Freddie Wong

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

Adam Osborne

When you have a failed pitch, you meet many more venture capitalists than you really want to.

Caterina Fake

In many cases, women are being harassed by people who are on their board or who are associated with one of their venture capitalists.

Jennifer Hyman

The most important question venture capitalists ask is what prevents your company from growing faster.

Glenn Kelman

Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.

Guy Kawasaki

There's this myopia among American venture capitalists to not go anywhere beyond Silicon Valley and New York.

Dave McClure

Unfortunately, a lot of Silicon Valley venture capitalists are disconnected from African Americans, Latinos, and other people of color.

Christine Tsai

I've had a lot of help... from Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, venture capitalists. They've helped me out a ton.

Andre Iguodala

A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.

David Heinemeier Hansson

The chance to interact with big shots is drawing scads of aspiring entrepreneurs to Quora, along with venture capitalists and other Valley players.

Daniel Lyons

I remember in 2007, 2008, when we had the recession, there were all of these very gloomy emails sent from a lot of venture capitalists, saying, Don't expect to get funded.'