Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

It's an old - and true - cliche that VCs rarely actually say 'no' - more often they say 'maybe', or 'not right now', or 'my partners aren't sure', or 'that's interesting, let me think about it'

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.

Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.