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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. "

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

Fred Wilson

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Profiles aren't journalism. "

Fred Wilson

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Fred Wilson

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" Money is information, like bits. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "