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

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

" Marketing is for companies who have sucky products. "

" 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. "

" Profiles aren't journalism. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The best talent in the venture industry doesn't work in large companies and won't work in large companies. "

" 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. "

" Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible. "

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

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

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

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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. "

" One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can't be done. So they try something that's so audacious and usually end up pulling it off. "

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

" Money is information, like bits. "

" The Web is going to capture an increasing share of people's attention, and billions of dollars are going to flow in. What Web 2.0 is about is harnessing those dollars in highly leverageable ways. "

" Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "