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" It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up. "
Fred Wilson
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" Games are the most social of all things on the web. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook. "
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" I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute. "
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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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" Marketing is for companies who have sucky products. "
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" The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing. "
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" Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good. "
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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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