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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. "
Fred Wilson
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" Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute. "
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" Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people. "
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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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" Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world. "
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" Money is information, like bits. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Free
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" To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently. "
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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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" It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Lose
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Parent