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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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" Profiles aren't journalism. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not saying M.B.A.s can't be great entrepreneurs. They can. But you don't need a degree to figure out it's costing you $5,000 per month to run your business, so you need $30,000 to keep it going for six more months. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team. "

" 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. "

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

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

" All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles. "

Venture Capital

" Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute. "

" Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened. "

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

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

Venture Capital

" Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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