Funded Quotes

You've got 18 months from the time you think about what you want to do, to the market penetration, to the actual product, to getting out there and getting customers. If you don't get that done in 18 months, you're not going to make it. There are too many well-funded, bright people out there. - Kenny Frerichs

Young people propose ambitious projects that may not work, so they don't get funded. Everybody else is proposing something where they've already done 90 percent of the work. It's one reason why progress is so incremental. - Greg Simon

You have to be careful. I see what I would suggest are features being funded as companies right now. - Bill Gurley

You don't see too many of these privately funded trips to Muncie, Ind., in the winter or the Florida Keys in the summer. - Fred Wertheimer

You create ... fundamentally a private school flavor funded with state funds. - George Martinez

You could potentially use mirrors to make a huge leap in computer technology, and they've been working on that in places like the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, funded by places like Intel and the big computer makers... I think in the next few years, it's going to break. - Mark Pendergrast

While we believe this is a very worthy program, we think it is a bad precedent to have private industry support a federally funded program. - James Mulva

While many of the projects may have been worthy of consideration, the way they were funded makes them suspect in the public's mind. - Roy Cooper

When we're funded better and you can look at this historically, tuition is not increased or it is increased at a lesser level. So it is really important that the state continue to maintain their share so we can continue to keep to the tuition down so that every body has access. Federal-grants-in-aid hasn't kept up. So if we want to continue to make college affordable, this is the type of year we need to have. - Happy Fulford