Word on the Street

"If you get everybody satisfied with the amount of funding in an area, you've got a problem."

– Bob More, general partner with Frazier Healthcare Ventures

"Most of the nonprofits have a higher tolerance for risk than any investor."

– Greg Simon, senior vice president for patient engagement at Pfizer Inc.

"It's better to own 1 percent of something that makes a billion than 100 percent of something that makes nothing."