What matters most is their passion — their focus on serving a large, unmet market need with an outstanding team and disruptive innovation. Their commitment to technical excellence, and obsessing on customers (not competition). Their pursuit of reasonable financings, but unreasonable, audacious goals. Their sense of urgency. Their ambition, vision, confidence and humility in putting their team first. They must be missionaries, not mercenaries.
L. John Doerr – American investor and leading venture capitalist: chairman of “Kleiner Perkins” (b. 1951), from an interview, published on the “Kleiner perkins”-website, regarding the question “What do you look for in entrepreneurs?”