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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. "
Fred Wilson
Long
Hang
Enough
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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
Yourself
Home
Great
" 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
Career
Start
Me
" 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. "
Fred Wilson
Up
Done
End
" Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people. "
Fred Wilson
Diversity
City
New
" It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up. "
Fred Wilson
You
Friend
Invest
" Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets. "
Fred Wilson
Drawing
More
Cost
" 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. "
Fred Wilson
Politics
Service
Government
" Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute. "
Fred Wilson
You
Equity
Time
" Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps. "
Fred Wilson
Caring
Hard
Supportive
" Marketing is for companies who have sucky products. "
Fred Wilson
Companies
Products
Marketing
" Money is information, like bits. "
Fred Wilson
Money
Bits
Information
" It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished. "
Fred Wilson
Buy
You
Great
" 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. "
Fred Wilson
Invest
Ideas
Great
" Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software. "
Fred Wilson
Software
Fast
Free
" When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening. "
Fred Wilson
You
Say
People
" Profiles aren't journalism. "
Fred Wilson
Journalism
Profiles
" 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. "
Fred Wilson
Talk
Myself
Make It Happen
" 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. "
Fred Wilson
Life
Start
Successful
" I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world. "
Fred Wilson
I Believe
World
Stronger
" 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. "
Fred Wilson
Smile
People
Money
" 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. "
Fred Wilson
Strong
Long
Money
" 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. "
Fred Wilson
Space
Energy
Exploration
" Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team. "
Fred Wilson
CEO
Senior
Team
" 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. "
Fred Wilson
Leadership
Time
Business
" 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. "
Fred Wilson
Customer
You
Way
" 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. "
Fred Wilson
Business
You
Feedback
" 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. "
Fred Wilson
Listen
You
True
" 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. "
Fred Wilson
You
Play
Need
" 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
Job
Privacy
Best
" 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. "
Fred Wilson
You
Business
Creating