Fred Wilson quotes

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible. (Fred Wilson)
I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge. View quote
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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. View quote
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Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Fred Wilson)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Money is information, like bits. View quote
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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. View quote
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Games are the most social of all things on the web. View quote
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Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook. View quote
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Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web. View quote
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Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute. View quote
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We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration. View quote
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To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently. (Fred Wilson)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business. View quote
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The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore. View quote
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