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Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are.

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

You know what works in venture capital? A group of incredibly smart, connected people who have the financial wherewithal and risk appetite to make multi-million dollar bets on unproven ideas and inexperienced founders. People who can make decisions quickly, and who spend their time trying to help entrepreneurs make the most of that cash.

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.

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

Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.

Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.

There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.

To not run a venture into the ground, entrepreneurs need to learn what it takes to succeed.

True entrepreneurs have to really forego almost everything; they have to put it all on the line.