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" Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web. "

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" Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team. "

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" I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world. "

" People already love to play casual games. But when you take a casual game and stick it inside a social network, it becomes way more exciting. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore. "

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

" So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster. "

" The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful. "

" Politics and government have been a terrible place to invest; education has been a terrible place to invest, but that is because the entrenched interests make it a terrible place to invest. The way you invest in those sectors is you go against the entrenched interests; you try and disrupt the entrenched interests, not to service them. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The Web is going to capture an increasing share of people's attention, and billions of dollars are going to flow in. What Web 2.0 is about is harnessing those dollars in highly leverageable ways. "

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

" It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up. "