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" I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me. "
Mitch Kapor
Professional
Great
Angel
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" My history is to find the next big thing early. "
Mitch Kapor
Big
Find
History
" Fundly is at the dynamic intersection of high-growth technology startups, social entrepreneurship, and the exploding world of social media. Kapor Capital is proud to back this passionate team, their product, and Fundly's impressive customer base. "
Mitch Kapor
Team
Technology
World
" I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it. "
Mitch Kapor
Profession
Soon
Best
" E-mail is a victim of its own success. "
Mitch Kapor
Own
Victim
E-Mail
" I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education. "
Mitch Kapor
Crisis
Education
Think
" Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience. "
Mitch Kapor
Made
Technological
Life
" When regulations restricting competition are relaxed, nobody's market share is protected. If telephone companies can offer video programming, cable revenue will surely drop. "
Mitch Kapor
Will
Competition
Programming
" Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace. "
Mitch Kapor
Cyberspace
Boards
Bands
" We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology. "
Mitch Kapor
Very
Technology
Examine
" On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite. "
Mitch Kapor
Young
Born
Brooklyn
" The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program. "
Mitch Kapor
Design
Software
Needs
" I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way of organizing all of them. "
Mitch Kapor
Organizing
Down
Create
" Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a machine to their will. I didn't. "
Mitch Kapor
Feel
Talent
People
" I had no fear of speaking to large audiences. "
Mitch Kapor
Fear
No Fear
Had
" I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move. "
Mitch Kapor
Live
Circumstances
Move
" Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill. "
Mitch Kapor
People
Want
Open
" Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian than elitist and more decentralized than hierarchical. It serves individuals and communities, not mass audiences, and it is extraordinarily multi-faceted in the purposes to which it is put. "
Mitch Kapor
Best
Which
Than
" I tell people that the history of Mozilla and Firefox is so one of a kind that it should not be used - ever - as an example of what's possible. "
Mitch Kapor
History
Possible
People
" No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island. "
Mitch Kapor
Family
Island
Russian
" I believe in having an impact in doing things. "
Mitch Kapor
Doing
I Believe
Impact
" People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser. "
Mitch Kapor
Many
Need
Time
" I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives. "
Mitch Kapor
People
Day
Help
" Successful entrepreneurs develop products that inspire their passion. They have to. It's that passion that gets them through the long, arduous, uncertain and frightening early days of a start-up. "
Mitch Kapor
Days
Early
Passion
" Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects. "
Mitch Kapor
Way
Information
Subjects
" Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization. "
Mitch Kapor
Seen
Hackers
Civilization
" Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and order more tests and procedures. If the incentives were changed to pay to foster better health outcomes, I am convinced physician behavior would change over time. "
Mitch Kapor
Today
See
I Am
" Every year we are greeted by a host of new apps that will 'change the way we think' about ordering takeout, 'fundamentally transform' our shoe purchases, or 'revolutionize' the way we edit photos. "
Mitch Kapor
Shoe
Change
New
" Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change. "
Mitch Kapor
Change
Steps
Take
" The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale. "
Mitch Kapor
Creation
World
Personal
" You can't be in the tech community... without realizing there's a big shortage of talent. "
Mitch Kapor
Talent
Big
Without