Dave McClure Quotes
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It's pretty challenging for large funds to spend the time and energy necessary to get a meaningful return when most of the wins coming out are perhaps below $100 million exits and the ones above are very few and far between.
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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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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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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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Everybody in the industry thinks I'm the crazy person.
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Europe is kind of fragmented. Africa is nascent; we've made a few investments, including four in Egypt. I visit 50-60 cities and 20-25 countries a year. The intent is to be a global fund, which takes time and prioritization.
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Entrepreneurship is usually about people executing in the face of other folks telling them that it's not going to work.
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There's this myopia among American venture capitalists to not go anywhere beyond Silicon Valley and New York.
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I don't think there's nearly enough interesting ways to do education online, particularly for younger children.
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I made advances towards multiple women in work-related situations, where it was clearly inappropriate. I put people in compromising and inappropriate situations, and I selfishly took advantage of those situations where I should have known better. My behavior was inexcusable and wrong.
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Hottest space that I think is interesting would be education, particularly, like, ages 3-10.
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I won't say that 'shotgun' is the word I'd prefer to use, but we certainly do a lot of investments.
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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.
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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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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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Sometimes, we nerds of technology sort of don't think that the rules necessarily apply to us in the same way, but I think when you produce products that hundreds of millions of people, if not billions of people, are using, we have the same responsibilities as any other person representing the Fourth Estate.
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I'm ashamed I didn't change my behavior until I was forced to do so by circumstance and by others. The reality is, I was stopped from further bad actions by those who spoke up about my offenses, at substantial risk to their personal and professional reputations... and subsequently, by Christine and others on the 500 team.
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The reason we invest globally is because we think that's where a lot of the growth is happening: around the world.
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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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Even for a lot of people in the Valley who are more conservative, a lot of them find Trump to be incredibly offensive and a blowhard.
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Most of what we do is software, Internet, and mobile. A fair amount of that is transactional.
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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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'Bazillion Dollar Club' follows six struggling startups trying to get their products together.
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I'm better than probably 90 percent of the people out there. Doesn't mean I'm smart; probably means I'm lucky.