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" Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook. "
Fred Wilson
Game
Hook
Social
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" It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up. "
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" The best talent in the venture industry doesn't work in large companies and won't work in large companies. "
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" Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software. "
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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. "
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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. "
Fred Wilson
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" I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge. "
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Knowledge
Reputation
" 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. "
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Think
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Technology
Web
Top
" 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. "
Fred Wilson
Smile
People
Money
" 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. "
Fred Wilson
Game
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You
" When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good. "
Fred Wilson
Lose
Thank God
Parent
" There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business. "
Fred Wilson
Control
Over
Difference
" 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. "
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Run
Business
Need
" 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. "
Fred Wilson
Content
Down
Experience
" New York's niche is content, and content is becoming more valuable. Just think about what is more valuable: MTV or the cable system that you use to get MTV? Howard Stern or the radio station you use to listen to him? Ultimately, technology becomes a commodity, and content - real, true branded content - becomes more valuable. "
Fred Wilson
Listen
You
True
" 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. "
Fred Wilson
Stick
Business
Focus
" We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration. "
Fred Wilson
Space
Energy
Exploration
" Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it. "
Fred Wilson
Team
Building
People
" 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. "
Fred Wilson
Yourself
Home
Great
" 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. "
Fred Wilson
Talk
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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. "
Fred Wilson
Long
Hang
Enough
" The most common way customer financing is done is you sell the customer on the product before you've built it or before you've finished it. The customer puts up the money to build the product or finish the product and becomes your first customer. Usually the customer simply wants the product and nothing more. "
Fred Wilson
Customer
You
Way
" The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore. "
Fred Wilson
World
Now
Innovation
" 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. "
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Business
Want
Sheep
" 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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CEO
Senior
Team
" 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. "
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Invest
Ideas
Great
" Games are the most social of all things on the web. "
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Games
Web
Social
" 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. "
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Time
Will
Early
" Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale. "
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Scale
Early
Should