Jose Ferreira
Jose Ferreira
Jose Ferreirais an American entrepreneur and Founder and CEO of Knewton...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
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No one cares how valuable your product is if its addressable market is small. The key isn't so much the number of users as it is the dollar size of the market.
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It's not enough to have a value-adding product in a big market. You also need the right conditions. Will you be able to scale revenues within a 5-10 year time frame? Is the timing right? YouTube wouldn't have worked pre-broadband.
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Stop pretending there's anything wrong with businesspeople hiring diligent laborers who will work for less. Let employers sponsor any worker and argue for why that worker should be given citizenship. Such a vetting mechanism would naturally promote the best and hardest-working.
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If I had to give one piece of advice to a budding entrepreneur, I would say: 'Aim big.'
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Big data has been used by human beings for a long time - just in bricks-and-mortar applications. Insurance and standardized tests are both examples of big data from before the Internet.
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It is intellectually dishonest to lump venture investors with hedge fund and buy-out investors.
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Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative is safe.
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Big data in education has huge potential to improve learning materials.
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The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.
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Anyone who sincerely wanted to use policy to reduce illegal immigration should start by crafting legislation based on changing actual behavior.
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Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.
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I spent most of my career in education and technology. I worked at Kaplan, and I was one of the first people trying to bring innovation into for-profit education.
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If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.
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The best programmers and internet entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area. Don't kid yourself about that, not even for a second.