TWiST Special Bonus Episode #140.5 with William Quigley, VC and Author www.facebook.com What do the next ten years look like for founders and VCs? William Quigley has an idea. In this special TWiST bonus episode, Quigley discusses his new report “A Venture Capital Revial is Upon Us” and shares his thoughts on why the future for entrepreneurship and investing looks bright. Support This Week in Startups and independent media by joining our new Producer Program at twistlist.co! 1:00-2:00 Introduction of guest William Quigley, author of this article and the report, “A Venture Capital Revival is Upon Us.” (quigleyreport.com 2:00-3:45 Thank you to the TWiST List members. If you’d like to join this special group, go to twistlist.co and sign up. 3:45-5:45 Thank you to .CO for sponsoring the show. 5:45-7:00 Welcome William. How long have you been in the VC game? 7:00-9:30 Bill Gross of Idealab conceived the idea for incubators, yes? 9:30-10:00 When you worked at Disney, were Walt’s original ideas still in play? 10:00-11:30 Financing is a big part of Disney’s business, isn’t it? 11:30-13:00 Tell us what the basic premise of the article was and why you wrote it. (Watch the clip.) 13:00-14:30 Do you think people think venture returns aren’t high enough? 14:30-16:00 So the VC community got almost B to invest in 2000, but the market was shrinking? 16:00-17:30 Quigley: It took 10 years–near 2009/2010–but all of those great commitments of 2000 were starting to disappear. 17:30-18:45 …
“we want to charge them 50% on the dollar and they won’t bring the money home” — Please expand on this…
Jason. Its SWAG.. not schwag.
shwag is shitty weed.
schwag means gear in this case, not substandard marijuana.
Well, if thats the case then 2+2 = 5
Sorry that math isn’t your strong point but I assure you these two guys are NOT talking about weed.