Funding and Building your Business

If you look at Bezos, or [Netscape Communications Corp. founder Marc] Andreessen, [Yahoo Inc. co-founder] David Filo, the founders of Google, they all seem to be white, male, nerds who’ve dropped out of Harvard or Stanford and they absolutely have no social life. So when I see that pattern coming in — which was true of Google — it was very easy to decide to invest."

"It’s important to recognize that even if you know someone in a personal context, you may not know them in a business context,"

"A lot of people think that if you own your own business, you can set your own hours. I think that’s the biggest falsehood you run into,"

Psychologists, journalists and celebrity chief executives crowd the top of a ranking of influential business thinkers compiled for The Wall Street Journal.

If you don’t ask, you don’t get.

The marketplace is an online registry that will have descriptions of inventions for browsing by prospective buyers.

What percentage of the company is typical given away in such cases?

Refunds associated with those claims amounted to only $876.6 million, or 17.5 percent of the $5 billion collected.

The issuance of stock options, common stock or some combination package is a very common form of noncash compensation to founders, first employees, board members, advisory board members and consultants.

The impact has been dramatic.