Sunil Nagaraj

“I wouldn't mind telling my five good friends that I'm dating, but I don't want my loose connections to know.”

“Even when I was five years old, I was obsessed with space.”

“I really appreciate that ability to gather signals of demand and signals of retention early on.”

“2017 will be the year that NewSpace startups will hit their stride.”

“I'm a technology person, but I'm not a science person.”

“I would love to go to space, take a view of the Earth, see the stars without the mask or the atmosphere. I think that would be an absolutely amazing experience.”

“It costs about as much to launch an app as it does to make and launch a satellite.”

“We can inform decisions when we look at data points on retention rates with your first hundred users, when we look at things like survey responses from your first hundred users.”

“Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words.”

“I have three focus areas: security, developer tools, and wearable Internet/Internet of Things.”

“Clearly communicate your project: Imagine explaining it to someone not familiar with tech.”

“The trail of dating sites relying heavily on Facebook is littered with failures.”

“Every entrepreneur must be on Twitter to stay 'plugged in' and to market his/her product.”

“In my mind, a bubble or over-hyped cycle is driven by something good happening, which is used as a baseline for the next good thing.”

“My background is as a computer scientist and programmer.”

“In elementary school, I read every single space book in the library about all the planets, about nebulas, about black holes. So for as long as I can remember, I've been just looking up at the stars and wondering what's out there and even what may be looking back at us.”

“Space investing looks a lot like tech investing.”