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" If your startup is only in the development or idea stage, there is almost no better predictor of failure - I mean, utter failure, scorched-earth bankruptcy - than raising too much money in the first round. "

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" Technology business increasingly becomes difficult to predict because technology itself is accelerating in change, and human nature and markets are more stagnant and static. But the dynamic engine of technological innovation continues unabated. "

Steve Jurvetson

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Technology

Nature

" The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get more unpredictable. "

" Back when I was a student, I had Steve Jobs over to my house for a fireside chat with the GSB High Tech Club. "

" By day, I'm a venture capitalist. On weekends, I love rockets. "

" Hotmail grew its base faster than any company I can think of. "

" The economies of the future are information. "

" Building and launching rockets has been a lifelong hobby that my son and I share. We regularly travel to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to launch rockets. "

" Charging a fee for an online service is a good way to lose 90 percent of your customers. "

" Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley. "

" The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then you found the source organism and extracted the genes to make your drug. Now physical science is becoming information science. "

" It is quite moving to hold a piece of Mars in your hands and to reflect on its incredible interplanetary journey, and the science that gives confidence as to the origin of this unusual rock. "

" When I was 11, I went to space camp at the Space Center in Texas, near where I grew up. There, I met video-game-industry pioneer Richard Garriott, better known to gamers everywhere as 'Ultima' creator Lord British. "

" I can't invest in areas of comfort. "

Steve Jurvetson

Invest

Comfort

" When you lower the cost of access to space, a boom of innovation follows, just as low-cost fiber optics paved the way for the Internet and the cloud services that followed. "

" Beyond self-driving cars, I think all airplanes should go pilotless. Get the pilots out of there. Even better, have no cockpit at all, and turn it into a nice lounge with a bar. Why give people the illusion of control with a steering wheel? "

" Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences. "

Steve Jurvetson

Science

Slow

" We only invest in businesses that reduce labor. "

" If you ask any VC what it takes to be successful, you'll get a description that sounds a lot like himself. There's a preference for self-similar individuals. "

Steve Jurvetson

You

Successful

" One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity. "

" Eventually, all cars are going to be autonomous. "

" Since the Moon has no atmosphere, it presents a unique orbital opportunity - we could fly incredibly close to the surface while staying in lunar orbit. "

" Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is. "

" We look for companies that are unlike anything we've ever seen before, with a bold vision to change the world and run by passionate entrepreneurs who get you jumping out of your seat. "

" Elon Musk is an incredible leader and entrepreneur. I have known him since 1995 when he first came to Silicon Valley. "

" As a geek, I take umbrage at the notion that chips are not sexy. But yes, robots, drones, satellites and self-driving cars are the kinds of things that excite me. "

" Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process. "

" We believe strongly that all meaningful change comes from entrepreneurs. "

" The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption. "

" Personally, I do not look at IPOs for an exit. "

" Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business. "