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" We're impressed by people who don't know what can't be done. "
Steve Jurvetson
Done
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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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" One very interesting framework for a company to succeed over time - beyond just business logic and analytics - is, do they have a reason why the best graduates in engineering programs will flock to them versus competitors? "
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" I started programming Apples in seventh grade. "
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" Eventually, all cars are going to be autonomous. "
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" History has proven time and again that downturns are the best time to invest in new start-ups. You get good deals and find a better environment for start-ups to grow. "
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" There is no correlation between a weak IPO market and an impact on early-stage VCs. "
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" Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley. "
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Valley
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" There aren't many sources of money in San Diego, apart from local partnerships and local investors. It's pretty starkly polarized to Silicon Valley. "
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" IT is permeating more industries. Moore's Law knocks down simulation capabilities. We don't need wind tunnels anymore, for example. You can run experiments more quickly. "
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" 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. "
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You
Successful
Like
" We only invest in businesses that reduce labor. "
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Invest
Only
Labor
" We believe strongly that all meaningful change comes from entrepreneurs. "
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Strongly
Meaningful
Change
" I taught myself HTML. "
Steve Jurvetson
Taught
Myself
HTML
" The concept of a 'job' is pretty recent. If you go back a few hundred years, everyone was either a slave or a serf, or living off slave or serf labor to pursue science or philosophy or art. "
Steve Jurvetson
Living
Art
Job
" The short version is I'm just a total Apple fanboy. I started programming Apples in seventh grade. "
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Programming
Short
Apples
" Go to the moon - that's my dream. "
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Dream
Moon
To The Moon
" Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences. "
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More
Science
Slow
" There was a time and a place when a pure content start-up had a chance, and that time has passed. "
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Content
Time
Chance
" Machine learning allows us to build software solutions that exceed human understanding and shows us how AI can innervate every industry. "
Steve Jurvetson
Understanding
Build
Learning
" Back when I was a student, I had Steve Jobs over to my house for a fireside chat with the GSB High Tech Club. "
Steve Jurvetson
House
Student
Over
" Corporate houses and big companies can be meaningful distribution channels for start-ups. "
Steve Jurvetson
Houses
Big
Corporate
" By day, I'm a venture capitalist. On weekends, I love rockets. "
Steve Jurvetson
Venture
Rockets
Love
" The deep learning techniques, while relatively easy to learn, are quite foreign to traditional engineering modalities. It takes a different mindset and a relaxation of the presumption of control. The practitioners are like magi, sequestered from the rest of a typical engineering process. "
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Rest
Control
Mindset
" IT is now reaching out to fuels and chemicals, energy and clean tech, rockets, all kinds of bizarre industries that formerly didn't face much competition. "
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Now
Energy
Competition
" Being slick is not the right answer. "
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Right
Being
Answer
" No politician has a 50-year horizon. "
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Horizon
Politician
" While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on life satisfaction. "
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Satisfaction
Life
More
" Statistical physics or Newtonian physics gives way to quantum physics. Very unusual properties of matter emerge at that scale, and you can think about building products in a very different way. You can think about interfacing to biology in a very different way. "
Steve Jurvetson
Think
You
Building
" Steve Jobs now rests with the sublime satisfaction of symbolic immortality. "
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Jobs
Immortality
Satisfaction
" If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them - another economic collapse, it's almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it's a perpetual driver of disruption. "
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You
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