Dave McClure famous quotes

Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications.
-- Dave McClure

#Technology #Design #Important

The path to the mountain ahead of you? is not the path you took to the mountain you stand on.
-- Dave McClure

#Entrepreneur #Mountain #Path

I figured maybe I had some talent as an investor… since it seemed like I was only a half-assed entrepreneur.
-- Dave McClure

#Entrepreneur #Half #Talent

The last 10 to 20 years you’d think that it has been all about VCs making money, because that’s all we hear about. But really it is all about VCs failing and failing to return capital and being f**king idiots. VCs are stupid. They are absolutely stupid. Does anyone want to challenge that statement? Does anyone think that VCs are not stupid?
-- Dave McClure

#Kings #Stupid #Thinking

For the most effective pitch, focus 80% on the problem, 20% on the solution.
-- Dave McClure

#Focus #Problem #Solutions

Entrepreneurs usually don't listen to people. Trust them to do their job. Remember, you invested with the understanding the project was likely to fail.
-- Dave McClure

#Jobs #Remember You #Remembers You

Wait until companies have an initial prototype, have shown that they have the potential to be profitable and have the ability to scale. That's the best time to invest.
-- Dave McClure

#Waiting #Investing #Scales

I think you want to show a level of transparency that breeds trust. You don't want to show a level of desperation that breeds concern.
-- Dave McClure

#Thinking #Levels #Want

The last 10 to 20 years you’d think that it has been all about VCs making money, because that’s all we hear about. But really it is all about VCs failing and failing to return capital and being f**king idiots. VCs are stupid. They are absolutely stupid. Does anyone want to challenge that statement? Does anyone think that VCs are not stupid?
-- Dave McClure

#Kings #Stupid #Thinking

I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.

I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.

…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….

Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.

I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in ‘42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.