Brad Feld Quotes

Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything.

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.

One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker.

I think 'Shark Tank' is targeting companies that are really trying to raise their very first dollar. A lot of them aren't really tech focused. We're definitely going after companies that are building real technology, either software or hardware, they probably have raised a couple hundred thousand already.

We're pretty broad as investors. Our thesis is work with great entrepreneurs that believe they can change the world. But there are specific areas that we get excited about - areas like hard tech, deep tech, companies that deal with really difficult technology, etc.

Nominally, I stated a company. Practically, it's a venture capital firm that allows me to be an investor in early stage companies.

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

I put together an iPhone app called TrimIt and released that in July 2011. About a month later, the private fund of the Hong Kong billionaire Li-Kashing cold emailed me and expressed an interest to invest, but they didn't realize I was 15. They thought it was a U.K. company with a team.

In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.

We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.

Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.

I focus on consumer Internet. Sometimes it's a working prototype; sometimes it's an idea on a napkin. I don't do a ton of deals a year, and I really like working with startups - it's the only way I can invest. It fits my ADD brain.

If you're a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business.

The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.

Loopt wouldn't have happened without Y Combinator.

Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.

We have a mentoring and angel investing programme. We are also talking to the government to help create a VC industry.

I've been an entrepreneur since I was 18. I started a company with a bunch of buddies that got funded in my senior year, and that's when I finished school. It was called Scour, a peer-to-peer service, file-sharing.

Startups are constantly raising money, sometimes before they have even hired a lawyer.

You need to begin to network with angels and VCs while you are still ideating. It is easier to ask someone you know for funding than a stranger. Build your financial network by attending as many industry functions and reaching out for advice from experts online.

I remember looking up to most any venture capitalist as someone who could make my little company happen with a single million-dollar check.

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

I had done six or eight traditional angel investments and basically just thought it sucked.