Mark Heesen Quotes (10 Quotes)

Bob Grady has a personal passion that will serve our members well as we broaden our public policy focus. Further, our new board members bring to the association additional energy and enthusiasm for the industry's largest challenges and we are looking forw

There are a lot of obstacles that stand in the way of creating a new way of creating energy.

A venture capitalist would rather work with three large institutional investors who give him 50 million rather than 10 individuals who give him 5 million each.

Are we concerned about a growing frothiness here The answer is absolutely not, ... There is simply not enough money coming into the asset class to support the kind of exuberance we saw in the late 1990s, and that's a good thing.

It's not like a venture capitalist is going to see a payback immediately or even in the next couple years.

Otherwise, we could begin to see the impact in performance across the board.

We are turning away money at this point. We will raise about 25 billion this year. In talking with many venture capital firms, I think we could have raised 100 billion if we wanted that money.

It's a never-ending battle as to whether to keep it within the corporation. There's pros and cons on both sides.

The biggest issue facing those who want to go out on their own is the ability to raise a fund without the name of the company you left behind.

We're hearing much more about elbows being thrown, especially if you're talking to people in Silicon Valley. There's a lot of competition out there.