The fifth province is not anywhere here or there, north or south, east or west. It is a place within each of us. It is that place that is open to the other, that swinging door which allows us to venture out and others to venture in.
"Patents make our product defensible. " The optimal number of times to use the P word in a presentation is one. Just once, say, "We have filed patents for what we are doing. " Done. The second time you say it, venture capitalists begin to suspect that you are depending too much on patents for defensibility. The third time you say it, you are holding a sign above your head that says, "I am clueless. "
The brave venture anything.
The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.
Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter.
. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine. . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death.
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.
in this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity - a commodity that those with means are able to afford, but that is too often entirely beyond the reach of others.
My buddy Alex Blumberg learned - he was very public about his learning process, and I know for a fact because we sat next to each other for many years, that he knew nothing about venture capital or seed rounds or "A" rounds or whatever you call them, and he had to really learn, like, pitch by pitch. He just screwed pitches up.
God wants to see human beings, not ghosts who shun the world. . . . Our marriage must be a 'yes' to God's earth. It must strengthen our resolve to do and accomplish something on earth. I fear that Christians who venture to stand on earth on only one leg will stand in heaven on only one leg too.
Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
It would not be going too far to assert that. . . conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who is. . . unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.
I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared
A lot of the philosophies of the businesses are just 'we're interested in getting customers now and if we're losing money with each customer now that's okay because we have this huge hoard of venture capital that we can subsidise the operation with and once we have the required number of tens of millions of customers and we drive our competitors out of business, then we can start to raise prices and become a proper business. '
The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'.
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.