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Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.


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HU XIAOLIAN I don't think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital.
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ARTHUR LIM What we will do is work with those institutions to make sure that our rules don't get in their way a...
DAVID BERGERON The new rules give listed companies more flexibility. The share incentives will stimulate the firms'...
DONG CHEN Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.
FRED WILSON The rationale was in order to take advantage of technology and provide greater flexibility for insti...
CRISSY SCHLUEP There's almost too much venture capital in India - there are issues with seed capital, but for v...
RAM SHRIRAM Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
MARC ANDREESEN Prior to this they didn't have much flexibility; they were shutting down high cost assets, but didn'...
STEPHEN ATKINSON It's a strong area for venture capital.
CRAIG CUDDEBACH You want to set rules, but with a lot of flexibility.
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DANIEL MORGAN There are not many people from top-tier venture capital firms who are focused on the seed stage.
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BRIAN BIRK Never go into venture capital if you want a peaceful life.
GEORGES F. DORIOT It will be a bright year (for venture capital) in 2006.
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GUY KAWASAKI A very important misconception is that some think we are a venture-capital firm.
CHARLES ALEXANDER The old markets — places where venture capital had made its greatest returns — have matured.
GARY MORGENTHALER Whatever the potential pitfalls, banks are increasingly enthusiastic about venture capital, particul...
ALEX BERENSON If there is possbility of the ability, I will choose flexibility.
DEYTH BANGER Like anything else in venture capital, you tend to allocate capital to those companies that can yiel...
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JOHN CLARKE When people start talking about venture capital and finances and how to create this and do that, a l...
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BERNIE SANDERS They're just burning through cash every quarter, and venture capitalists aren't seeing a return on c...
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GRAYDON CARTER As a result, that makes a place where financial institutions are willing to take risks that they wou...
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DAVID BLITZER It will give flexibility to attract star faculty to take advantage of opportunities when they come a...
CARL GULBRANDSEN Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more beco...
FREDERICK W. SMITH I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity l...
AL-WALEED BIN TALAL A 47 percent increase in venture capital investment is a very strong sign we're doing things right.
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ALEX RODRIGUEZ Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patroniz...
ALEX KINGSTON The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to de...
ALEX FERGUSON It stuns me how effective children can be in their messaging, and I believe that every child should ...
ALEX GUARNASCHELLI Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having...
ALEX KAPRANOS I want to have lots of bodyguards around me and be surrounded by beautiful women while watching my b...
ALEX PETTYFER I start warming up before training an hour before at the hotel. That's not because I feel old an...
ALEX MORGAN I was on the field praising quarterback Dan Fouts during a ceremony to retire his number. Boos began...
ALEX SPANOS The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.
ALEX LEVIN The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms o...
ALEX STEFFEN Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues ...
ALEX NOBLE Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after...
ALEX MORRITT I had never thought about playing volleyball until my freshman year, ... But Small stopped me in the...
ALEX NOBLE It started clicking then,
ALEX NOBLE Intimidation? Oh, gosh, I cried every day, ... I almost walked out the first day. One girl said I sh...
ALEX NOBLE Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and g...
ALEX NOBLE If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I ...
ALEX NOBLE If I'd stayed up there I'd be out of a job now,
ALEX SANDERSON One step from the scrapheap, really.
ALEX SANDERSON