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“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.”

Book:The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies

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“A good portfolio manager knows which companies to keep and which ones to let go. Many a GP has struggled with portfolio companies that cannot meet their value-creation milestones, or raise additional follow-on rounds of capital, or generate target returns in a time span of, say, five to seven years. The faster you recognize those losses, the better it is.” - “As David Cowan says, “Just focus on your top five—the rest is distraction.” The harder part of the investor's discipline is to know when to quit.” - “You have to constantly scan all of those things and be willing to adjust your own sense of what's a reasonable outcome and move the company into a position where it has the maximum chance to succeed. ” - “Time is your enemy: Portfolio companies always take twice as much capital and twice as long to exit. Early-stage companies rarely meet milestones as planned and always burn cash faster than anticipated.”

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Book:The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies

Source: The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies

“more than just a corporate thriller, its about the lifestyle and culture of Silicon Valley”

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Book:Sand Hill Road

Source: Sand Hill Road

“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). ⁣”

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Author:Richie Norton

“The night slowly opens before us, and we step inside, while all around us turns to distance. A new world will soon be born from the fading traces of our tears.”

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Book:The Void That Reflects Your Beauty

Source: The Void That Reflects Your Beauty

“Shareholders are demanding that Twitter find better ways of monetizing its users Tweets.”