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
There’s one thing I’ve learned about entrepreneurs’ business plans. Every one is wrong. – Josh Kopelman
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
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
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
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
When I started half.com, our three biggest competitors were Borders, Tower Records and Blockbuster Video. – Josh Kopelman
