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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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Profiles aren't journalism. View quote
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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. View quote
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When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good. View quote
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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. View quote
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Marketing is for companies who have sucky products. View quote
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Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too. View quote
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Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team. View quote
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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. (Fred Wilson)
Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps. View quote
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It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished. View quote
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Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets. View quote
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I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy. View quote
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Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing. View quote
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It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up. (Fred Wilson)
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. View quote
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