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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Profiles aren't journalism. "

" 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. "

" The Web is going to capture an increasing share of people's attention, and billions of dollars are going to flow in. What Web 2.0 is about is harnessing those dollars in highly leverageable ways. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Marketing is for companies who have sucky products. "

" Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace. "

" 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. "

" Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy. "