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The earlier you invest, the higher that attrition rate is because it's compounded. We have a more scientific method of investment.
Dave McClure
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Most firms do two investments a year. They may talk to between 50 and 100 and do a couple, whereas we're talking to thousands and doing several hundred.
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While I'd like to believe that I'm not a bad or evil person, regardless, it's clear that some of my past actions have hurt or offended several women. And I probably deserve to be called a creep.
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Not everybody wants to be Mark Zuckerberg, but everybody wants to create a little piece of the American dream, the Silicon Valley version. I don't think that's a bad thing.
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A bubble in early-stage funding means maybe there's $300 million at work when maybe there should be $150, as opposed to a bubble in late-stage funding which means there's $20 billion at work when there should be $3.
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There's going to be a Google or a Facebook or a Zynga every three to five years. Those are really big ideas that do return substantial amounts of money.
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There were never as many big businesses as people were piling money into in the late 90's or early 2000's. This is really a lesson to institutional investors about how much capital the market can absorb, and it's a 10-year adjustment cycle, and we're only beginning to wake up to that.
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I aim to combine all the things I do in a comprehensive and holistic fashion that benefits startups and the people who make them grow.
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Food tech has been kind of an area that we have been making a number of investments in. Kind of a big boring industry, but a lot of people eat.
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We think that there's a lot of opportunities in helping improve finding food, delivering food, ordering systems, notifications system, and its a very frequent purchase item for a lot of people.
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We are trying to build large, lasting businesses.
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Usually, what I recommend to entrepreneurs is to focus on telling the problem first, about the customer or the person who has that problem.
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