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“You have to look at the fundamental raison d'être of the business - what is it doing? What's the nature of the business and what are its prospects for success? What are its prospects to break even and then return the sustained profit?”

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Kevin Kinsella

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“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.'”

Ifs Philosophy Numbers Millions Huge Losing Okay Raises Customers Operations Venture Competitors Venture Capital Losing Money

Author:Kevin Kinsella

“How many of the unicorn companies are really prosaic businesses - like limousine services or renting rooms in your house? The original VC firms from the '70's made their money and established the reputation of their respective brands by leveraging big cleverness with small capital, not small cleverness with big capital, and that's what's going on with these unicorns. That has never worked and it won't work this time. It doesn't produce venture quality returns, and it never will.”

Made Bigs House Rooms Quality Company Produce Return Originals Reputation Brands Firm Venture Cleverness Unicorn Limousines

Author:Kevin Kinsella

“I think mobile web enabled services can be great business but A): it doesn't apply to everything, I think the markets will ultimately get a bit fragmented when the crunch stars to happen. And the other thing is, B): it doesn't necessarily work with everything.”

Thinking Happens Stars Bits Mobile Fragmented Great Business Crunch

Author:Kevin Kinsella

“For venture capital, one of the original principles is people you want to invest in are people who've done it before with someone else's money. Not people who've just came out of business school.”

People Want Done School Principles Originals Venture Venture Capital Business School

Author:Kevin Kinsella

“We're in one of the biggest tech bubbles we've ever had.”

Bubbles

Author:Kevin Kinsella

“Everyone who is inside of an expanding bubble can't imagine another world where the bubble collapses on them. It's unimaginable because they haven't lived through it.”

World Imagine Havens Bubbles Collapse Expanding Another World Unimaginable

Author:Kevin Kinsella

“Skating has so many styles. Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle.”

Sports Style Picks Lifestyle Hobbies Skating

Author:Lil Wayne

“It's fun as hell to fall and to not get something and then to finally land it. That's like pursuing a girl that said no a hundred times and she finally say yeah.”

Said Fall Girl Fun Hell Land Hundred Yeah

Author:Lil Wayne

“The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”

Lying Enemy Truth Is Myth Deliberate Persistent Persuasive

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962

“I'm not a person who carries my emotions on my sleeve.”

Persons Emotion Carrie Sleeves

Author:Jay Leno

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