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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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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It is intellectually dishonest to lump venture investors with hedge fund and buy-out investors.
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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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We know everything about what you know and how you learn best because we get so much data. And education is the highest-stakes media product in your life. It's infinitely more important than your Facebook friends' status updates or your Google search results because it's your future.
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Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they think can be turned around by fixing a few basic things.
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Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world.
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Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible.