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" Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software. "
Fred Wilson
Software
Fast
Free
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" Money is information, like bits. "
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" There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business. "
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" Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace. "
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" I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world. "
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I Believe
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" 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. "
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Strong
Long
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" 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. "
Fred Wilson
Listen
You
True
" 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. "
Fred Wilson
Talk
Myself
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" Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps. "
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Caring
Hard
Supportive
" Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase. "
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Company
Phase
" Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened. "
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Just
Happened
" 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. "
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Great
Finance
Help
" 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. "
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Leadership
Time
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. "
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You
" Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible. "
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Building
Team
Communication
" 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. "
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Smile
People
Money
" Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long. "
Fred Wilson
Long
Hang
Enough
" 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. "
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Money
Out
Think
" To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently. "
Fred Wilson
Differently
You
Things
" 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. "
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Free
News
Opinion
" The best talent in the venture industry doesn't work in large companies and won't work in large companies. "
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Industry
Work
Best
" Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute. "
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Equity
Time
" 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. "
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Flow
People
Capture
" 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. "
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Invest
Ideas
Great
" I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy. "
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Think
People
Money
" Marketing is for companies who have sucky products. "
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Companies
Products
Marketing
" 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. "
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Customer
You
Way