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'Google is the most profitable, insidious unstoppable force - I'm proud to say' |
'Microsoft, Intel and Yahoo have down and to through right stock charts' |
'Sarbanes-Oxley is a massively ill-conceived sledgehammer on the head of small businesses and investors' |
'Enterprise markets can be important, but Consumer markets are the Grand Slams' |
'VC is a cottage industry that doesn't scale at all - more partners doesn't mean better returns' |
'VC is the most inefficiently priced asset class at purchase' |
'Bill Gates and Andy Grove are the two most vicious capitalists that have ever walked the face of the earth' |
'I expect the VC business to contract to $5-$6b business in the coming years' |
'VC industry is about a $20b per year business' |
'Our strategy is to be lucky' |
'I spend most of my time listening to Powerpoints and telling myself to try to be polite' |
'The Economist and CNN.com have no bearing on the VC business' |
'Entrepreneurs are knowingly ignorant of market conditions since they are irrelevant to start ups' |
Panel over, VC Bruce Dunlevie, General Partner of Benchmark Capital is now telling us that no one knows how to predict the future |
Audience Question: 'are there people out there that can interpret tech jargon for investors?' Panel: 'We all do that all the time' |
'90,000 people live in Boulder, CO and they support TechStars - we can do that in Houston or Dallas easily' |
'challenge the conventional wisdom of the current VC model by focusing on the seed rounds' |
'what would you do with a bunch of money? Don't waste it on rewriting the same code over and over again' |
'getting people to talk is hard - BarCamps and Jelly's are the best start' |
Q: What needs to happen to make the tech ecosystem better for entrepreneurs? A: minimize politics among organizations, lessen tax impact |
