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Fred Wilson
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 20
Blogger
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Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.
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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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Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.
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Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.
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The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success
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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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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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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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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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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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There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.
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I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.
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Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.
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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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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.
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Markets come and go. Good business don't.
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Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.
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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.
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Money is information, like bits.
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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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