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

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" 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. "

" When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good. "

" 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. "

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

" There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business. "

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

" 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. "

" 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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" Games are the most social of all things on the web. "

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

" Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps. "

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

" 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. "

" Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished. "

" I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "