Brad Feld Quotes

#1. Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

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#2. Make sure the thing you are working on is something you love.

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#3. Startups are transforming our society. Over the past 100 years, we've gone from an industrial era, where a hierarchical structure dominated business and society, to a post information era where the network is rapidly disrupting the hierarchy and transforming the way we work and live,

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#4. You can't motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated.

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#5. I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

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#6. Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

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#7. Failure is a key part of entrepreneurship, but, as with many things in life, attitude impacts outcome

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#8. 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 try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

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#9. I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.

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#10. Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

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#11. Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life.

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#12. I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

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#13. From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you and your comfortable with it, the easier it is for somebody like me to say tell me more.

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#14. Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

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#15. The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

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