“If your company has a good idea today, you can be sure that within a year a competitor will be financed like a heat-seeking missile to find its way right up your tailpipe.”
John Doerr, uber-VC at Kleiner Perkins, on the vagaries of funding high-tech startups, San Francisco Examiner Magazine, 2 November 1997
“The kids are the authorities. And it’s not like being an authority on Barbie dolls. They are the authorities about the central innovation of our time.”
Don Tapscott, author of Growing Up Digital, on kids these days, and their hair, and their music, and their technical skills, USA Today, 6 November 1997
“People have the impression for us to win, Microsoft has to lose. The notion that we have to take them down is not accurate.”
Mike Homer, Netscape’s executive VP of sales and marketing, sounding suspiciously like Steve Jobs, Marketing Computers, November 1997
“I have not made any secret of the fact that I have serious concerns about Microsoft’s recent efforts to exercise its monopoly power, and that I plan to continue to examine the company’s practices.”
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah), showing the meaning of constituent service in the digital age, Wired News, 4 November 1997
“Some people do the classic thing and become a venture capitalist. That didn’t seem right because I really liked being hands-on and doing things.”
Former Cadence Design Systems CEO Joe Costello, on his plans to invest sweat equity in a new startup, News.com, 3 November 1997
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