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The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.

Our experience is that most entrepreneurs are able to attract debt, even for risky and early stage investments. There are investors who provide debt, but very few who fund through equity.

Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.

If a rich person invests in a business, either directly or through stock purchases, it means business can grow and hire more people.

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

Financing is tough, and you really have to work hard in the businesses you invest in.

Many entrepreneurs, and the venture investors who back them, seek to build billion-dollar companies.

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.