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Marketing is for companies who have sucky products.

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Fred Wilson
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 20
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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.
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I use beauty as a way of helping people to receive difficult or upsetting ideas. The topical issues are merely a vehicle for making one aware of one's own perceptual shift-which is the real thrill.
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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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Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.
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To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.
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Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.
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I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.
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Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
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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.
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Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.
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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.
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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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Money is information, like bits.
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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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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.
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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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If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented.
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If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.
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