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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software. "

" 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. "

" Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good. "

" Profiles aren't journalism. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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