When I started half.com, our three biggest competitors were Borders, Tower Records and Blockbuster Video. Josh Kopelman Read Quote
I don’t think Philadelphia’s challenge is in coming up with great ideas or having great founders. I think the real challenge is keeping them here. Josh Kopelman Read Quote
If you’re an entrepreneur, and you have a choice to go to a place where there are 250 VC firms or somewhere else where there might be one or two, you’re gonna go where all the money is. Josh Kopelman Read Quote
You know you’ve built a product that can hit the mainstream when your wife, your father, and your mother-in-law can get involved. Josh Kopelman Read Quote
I really believe that if capital doesn’t come to the entrepreneurs, the entrepreneurs have no choice but to go to the capital. Josh Kopelman Read Quote
The Philadelphia region does have capital, but there’s no concentration of it. Josh Kopelman Read Quote
I don’t think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital. Josh Kopelman Read Quote
There’s one thing I’ve learned about entrepreneurs’ business plans. Every one is wrong. Josh Kopelman Read Quote
First Round has an opportunity: to create an entirely new kind of online publication, built for technology entrepreneurs, where they can learn how to build better companies. Josh Kopelman Read Quote
