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" All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles. "
Venture Capital
Think
More
" Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps. "
Caring
Hard
Supportive
" Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets. "
Drawing
More
Cost
" Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team. "
CEO
Senior
Team
" Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it. "
Team
Building
People
" Certainly anything that is news or opinion needs to be free on the Web, because the Web is this very fluid medium that is very much driven by links and the flow of visitors through a discussion via links. "
Free
News
Opinion
" Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product. "
Great
Finance
Help
" Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute. "
You
Equity
Time
" Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web. "
People
Other
Facebook
" Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr are all 'User First, Brands Second' services. The brands are all over these services now. But for the most part, these services didn't do much to bring them. The engaged users did. "
Over
Now
Most
" Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook. "
Game
Hook
Social
" Games are the most social of all things on the web. "
Games
Web
Social
" Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people. "
Diversity
City
New
" I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world. "
I Believe
World
Stronger
" I believe the mobile OS market will play out very similarly to Windows and Macintosh, with Android in the role of Windows. And so, if you want to be in front of the largest number of users, you need to be on Android. "
You
Play
Need
" I don't like to talk about myself. I like to talk about stuff that's happening, stuff that's going to happen, and the people who are going to make it happen. "
Talk
Myself
Make It Happen
" If you are successful, you will be cloned. That's life. In fact, it's a sign that you've made it when clones of your website, mobile app, and business start cropping up. "
Life
Start
Successful
" If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile. "
Content
Down
Experience
" I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me. "
Time
Will
Early
" I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing. "
Free
Think
Speech
" I'm not saying M.B.A.s can't be great entrepreneurs. They can. But you don't need a degree to figure out it's costing you $5,000 per month to run your business, so you need $30,000 to keep it going for six more months. "
Run
Business
Need
" I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge. "
Identity
Knowledge
Reputation
" Internet and mobile product development cycles are measured in months, not years. And the capital required to get a product built and into the market is less than $1 million. And the returns, when things work out, can be enormous. "
Internet
Work
Development
" Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible. "
Building
Team
Communication
" I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy. "
Think
People
Money
" It's not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership. "
Leadership
Time
Business
" It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up. "
You
Friend
Invest
" It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished. "
Buy
You
Great
" I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy. "
Me
Am
I Am
" Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too. "
Stick
Business
Focus
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