I don`t think a generalist firm can move into financial services because it`s hard to find the valuable startups without having worked in the field for ten years.
- Jeff Cunningham(These days, it may be easier to raise startup money than it was during the boom. No, it doesn`t seem that way. But that`s a perception promulgated by precarious or now deceased startups.) The companies founded two or three years ago have been struggling with the assumption that follow-on investments would be as easy to get as the initial funding, ... They`re not getting (the follow-on) funding, and so they`re telling people that VCs don`t want to spend. We do, but more on the traditional companies missed during the dot-com bubble.
- Geoffrey MooreThere is tremendous market opportunity in the Linux server industry for startups who can fill a niche. The key will be for these startups to show that there is a real cost benefit to Linux over Windows and Unix.
- George Weiss