Ron Conway Quotes

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When you first meet an investor, you've got to be able

When you first meet an investor, you’ve got to be able to say in one compelling sentence – that you should practice like crazy – what your product does, so that the investor that you are talking to can immediately picture the product in their own mind.

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By working to ensure we live in a society that prioritizes public safety, education, and innovation, entrepreneurship can thrive and create a better world for all of us to live in.

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The tech community is a closely knit group, which is why it’s so powerful. All of these companies have an affinity for each other, even if they compete with each other.

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Cities like New York have already followed San Francisco and have started similar organizations like sfCiti; New York has TECH NYC.

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Entrepreneurs, because they need money, they are willing to share their crystal ball with someone like me. That’s the best thing ever.

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I never said I enjoy anything about using the Internet. I enjoy helping the entrepreneurs who are building this thing that I don’t necessarily like or use.

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You can’t learn to be ambitious and driven.

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I really don’t have a lot of interest in national politics, and it’s because I’m a skeptic. I think you can accomplish a lot more locally. I don’t want to spin the wheels and not get anything done.

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The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

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Facebook is becoming the web. Everything you need is there… it is the universe.

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I started sfCiti because I believed that technology companies needed to take a ‘One City‘ approach and build a shared sense of community and civic responsibility in San Francisco.

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Pinterest is offering consumers a way to discover things on the web, in a serendipitous way, with a beautiful user interface. So it’s offering a whole new paradigm called ‘discover’ and allowing users to be creative.

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As the tech industry continues to grow and sprout successful startups across the country, it is important that we understand our responsibility to affect positive change in our communities.

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All the biggest companies are based on a founder who had a need, hacked it together, and said, ‘Hey, other people might want this.’

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I am most proud of what sfCiti has accomplished with the ‘Circle the Schools’ program, which engages companies to enter into long-term partnerships with San Francisco public schools, using an adopt-a-school model.

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