Alan Patricof

As a venture capitalist, I invest in people and ideas that are fresh, vibrant, and willing to disrupt the market. As a political donor, I like to see the same energy in the people I support. ”

The Enterprise Value Tax is unprecedented, punitive, and has no justification in the tax code. ”

Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' - to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor. ”

In times of huge fiscal deficits, no new revenues can be ignored, and renouncing any becomes well nigh politically impossible. ”

Our national debt poses a threat to all Americans and is particularly troublesome both for well-established businesses and for those seeking to enter into the marketplace. ”

Cloud computing eliminates capital expenditure, so you can go global very quickly - you don't have to have extensive servers in every country. ”

I didn't understand the culture and what Starbucks was really about. It wasn't a coffee shop. It was really a way of life... we suffer from thinking that since we have it in New York, or it won't work in New York, that it won't work some other place. That's a discipline we keep trying to improve. ”

We've done education nonprofit through our history, and maybe the profit motive will be helpful. ”

Your initial instincts about investments and people are usually correct. We do a lot of due diligence in this business and most of the time it comes out where we started. ”

It's tough, no matter how good your technology is, to police every single comment coming up. ”