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No one cares how valuable your product is if its addressable market is small. The key isn't so much the number of users as it is the dollar size of the market.
- Jose Ferreira
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#Key
#Product
#Size
#Valuable
You need more than just a great idea. Your product or service must add an enormous amount of value to some industry. If the idea isn't completely new, it has to be better, cheaper, or more efficient than what we already have.
- Jose Ferreira
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#Great
#New
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Stop pretending there's anything wrong with businesspeople hiring diligent laborers who will work for less. Let employers sponsor any worker and argue for why that worker should be given citizenship. Such a vetting mechanism would naturally promote the best and hardest-working.
- Jose Ferreira
#Best
#Citizenship
#Stop
#Why
#Work
Anyone who sincerely wanted to use policy to reduce illegal immigration should start by crafting legislation based on changing actual behavior.
- Jose Ferreira
#Behavior
#Immigration
#Policy
#Start
In a crisis, markets always look to see who is the next-worst off and proactively begin shying away from them.
- Jose Ferreira
#Always
#Crisis
#Look
#See
#Who
Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible.
- Jose Ferreira
#Far
#New
#Today
#Valley
#Venture Capital
Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world.
- Jose Ferreira
#Create
#Rest
#Value
#Venture
#World
It is intellectually dishonest to lump venture investors with hedge fund and buy-out investors.
- Jose Ferreira
#Dishonest
#Fund
#Hedge
#Lump
#Venture
Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they think can be turned around by fixing a few basic things.
- Jose Ferreira
#Buy
#Grow
#Minority
#Will
#Young
Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.
- Jose Ferreira
#Data
#Experience
#Information
#Teacher
Immigration has defined my entire life. My parents left Mozambique with nothing but their wits in search of a better life for their kids. They moved to England in the 1970s, saw the classism there, and left for America soon after.
- Jose Ferreira
#America
#Better
#Life
#Parents
#Search
The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you're stupid. You don't think, 'If this kid's not a good fit, it could be the system's fault.'
- Jose Ferreira
#Bad
#Education
#Good
#Grades
#Stupid
If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.
- Jose Ferreira
#Bank
#Business
#Day
#Good
#Risks
If the penalty for hiring illegals is just a fine, it becomes a business decision. But if the penalty is jail time, illegal immigration will come to a screeching halt.
- Jose Ferreira
#Business
#Decision
#Jail
#Time
#Will
I spent most of my career in education and technology. I worked at Kaplan, and I was one of the first people trying to bring innovation into for-profit education.
- Jose Ferreira
#Education
#First
#Innovation
#Technology
Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn't need to know anything about retail bookselling to start Amazon.
- Jose Ferreira
#Best
#Finance
#Know
#Start
#Work
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