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

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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. "

" The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world. "

" 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. "

" There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Marketing is for companies who have sucky products. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge. "

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

" Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web. "

" Games are the most social of all things on the web. "

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

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

" 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. "