“ So today we tend to focus on a company’s product vision, rather than on the specific details of a pre-launch product. ”

Josh Kopelman

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“ Most VCs are dinosaurs, and the World Wide Web is an asteroid that hit the planet in a slow-motion cataclysmic explosion 15 years ago. ”

Dave McClure

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“ We tried charging for Stack Exchange, and that didn’t work so well. So we asked ourselves, ‘How would the people of 1999 solve this problem?’ And the best answer we could come up with was, let’s make the damn thing free, and get some VC somewhere to pay for it. ”

Joel Spolsky

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“ When you take any money at all from a big VC in a seed round, you are effectively giving them an option on the next round, even though that option isn’t contractual. And, somewhat counterintuitively, the more well respected the VC is, the stronger the negative signal will be when they don’t follow on. ”

Chris Dixon

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“ Just because something is simple to build doesn’t mean it won’t be a good venture capital investment ”

Fred Wilson

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“ People refer to powerpoint as a “deck.” There’s no rule that says you have to deal from the top of the deck in a pitch meeting. ”

Fred Graver

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