Mark Heesen Quotations

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.

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

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

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.

We are turning away money at this point,

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 forward to another productive year.

At the end of the day, most VCs would tell you that you'd get a bigger bang for your buck out of an IPO than an acquisition but the public markets are not as ebullient as they could be so we probably will see more acquisitions,

They actually want these guys for more than their money.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

But you also have to be very cognizant and look at why that fund didn't do well, ... It's one thing if it was the economy that helped bring that fund down. But if it was reasons internal to the firm, that's different.

These individuals are thinking about the same issues but their perspectives and priorities often differ.