Fireside Chat: Money and passion

Two of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capitalists say even the best ideas can be worthless without passion.

In the concluding session of Revenue Bootcamp, two money men – Mike Moritz, Sequoia Capital and Paul Graham, Y Combinator – sat down with Guy Kawasaki, managing director, Garage Technology Ventures to discuss the realities of venture capital funding in the technology industry – and the passion needed to succeed.

The day-long Revenue Bootcamp held July 10, 2009, on the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, Calif., brought together some top-notch experts to share tips, hints, lessons and advice about how to increase traffic with Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing and face-to-face meetings.

This video, “Fireside chat,” is the last in a series recorded during the one-day conference organized by Kawasaki.

All of the videos will remain available on building43.com.

Here are some important links mentioned in this video:

* Sequoia Capital: http://www.sequoiacap.com/sequoia-capital/
* Y Combinator: http://ycombinator.com/
* Garage Technology Ventures: http://www.garage.com/

The Rackspace Cloud was one sponsor for the event.

5 Comments on “Fireside Chat: Money and passion”

  1. Love how Moritz is talking about original Apple business plan and how they
    were trying to create/invent things to put in it to make the market share
    big enough for investors to look at. so funny… around 40:00:00 on the
    video.

  2. HA HA, I LOVE how Paul Graham proves his own point by exposing his
    cluelessness around 38:50. He is right about the RIM/Blackberry
    predictions, but COMPLETELY WRONG about Android’s market-share. 🙂

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