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" 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. "
Fred Wilson
Life
Start
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" The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore. "
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" I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing. "
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" Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible. "
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" Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook. "
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" 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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" I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge. "
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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. "
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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. "
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Ideas
Great
" When there were not very many Internet companies, the supply of Internet companies to the market was small and the appetite for them was large. Therefore, if you were in the business of creating Internet companies in 1996-98, you had a market that provided massive demand for that. "
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You
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Creating
" 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 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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Web
Top
" It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up. "
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" Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened. "
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Just
Happened
" 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. "
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" 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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Will
Early
" 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. "
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Home
Great
" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Long
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" Profiles aren't journalism. "
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Profiles
" The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful. "
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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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" 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. "
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Start
Me