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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it. "

" 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. "

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