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" Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets. "

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" The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in. "

" Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice. "

" 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. "

" Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max. "

" Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase. "

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" 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. "

" Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long. "

" Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business. "

" There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making. "

" Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible. "

" All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles. "

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" My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second, at Flatiron, was Internet to bubble. And the third, at USV, has been web 2 to mobile. I have always used a new firm to denote a new investment phase for me. Throw away the old. Start with the new. "

" I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge. "

" Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook. "

" 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. "

" I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy. "

" The best talent in the venture industry doesn't work in large companies and won't work in large companies. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Money is information, like bits. "

" I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy. "

" Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale. "

" Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute. "

" The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services. "

" When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening. "

" To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently. "

" Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace. "

" Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it. "

" Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened. "

" When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment. "