Josh Kopelman Quotes

United States, Venture Capitalist
1972

Kopelman is best known as a founder of First Round Capital, a pioneering seed-stage venture fund that led the seed round in Uber. Josh has consistently been ranked as one of the top 20 Venture Capitalists in the world. Before founding First Round, Josh was a founder of Half.com, a fixed price marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of used books, movies and music products. In 2000, Kopelman sold Half.com to EBay.

I really believe that if capital doesn't come to the entrepreneurs, the entrepreneurs have no choice but to go to the capital.

Josh Kopelman
I don't think Philadelphia's challenge is in coming up with great ideas or having great founders. I think the real challenge is keeping them here.

Josh Kopelman

Markets really matter. Because the bigger the market, the more targets there are for the missile to hit.

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- Matter
- Markets
- Targets
I don’t like to solve new needs, I like to solve existing needs.

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- Needs
- Solve
- Existing
I don't think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital.

Josh Kopelman
There's one thing I've learned about entrepreneurs' business plans. Every one is wrong.

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- Business
- Wrong
- Plans
First Round has an opportunity: to create an entirely new kind of online publication, built for technology entrepreneurs, where they can learn how to build better companies.

Josh Kopelman
The Philadelphia region does have capital, but there's no concentration of it.

Josh Kopelman

You know you've built a product that can hit the mainstream when your wife, your father, and your mother-in-law can get involved.

Josh Kopelman
If you're an entrepreneur, and you have a choice to go to a place where there are 250 VC firms or somewhere else where there might be one or two, you're gonna go where all the money is.

Josh Kopelman