Top 71 Fred Wilson Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. Games are the most social of all things on the web.

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#6. Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets.

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#7. The best talent in the venture industry doesn't work in large companies and won't work in large companies.

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#8. Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.

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#9. 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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#10. The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

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#11. Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale.

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#12. Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

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#13. It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.

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#14. The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.

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#15. Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened.

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#16. 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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#17. I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

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#18. I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

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#19. 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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#20. Markets come and go. Good business don't.

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#21. If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.

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#22. The only way you win is by knowing what you're good at and what you're not good at, and sticking to what you're good at.

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#23. I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

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#24. I'm not saying M.B.A.s can't be great entrepreneurs. They can. But you don't need a degree to figure out it's costing you $5,000 per month to run your business, so you need $30,000 to keep it going for six more months.

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#25. 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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#26. 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.

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#27. Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web.

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#28. 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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#29. There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.

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#30. If you are successful, you will be cloned. That's life. In fact, it's a sign that you've made it when clones of your website, mobile app, and business start cropping up.

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#31. Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software.

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#32. Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.

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#33. Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.

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#34. When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.

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#38. Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long.

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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented.

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#42. 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.

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#43. I get everything that satisfies my soul from bringing together objects that are in the world, manipulating them, working with spatial arrangements, and having things presented in the way I want to see them.

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#44. It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.

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#45. When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening.

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#46. 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.

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#47. To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.

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#48. 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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#49. I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world.

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#50. 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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#51. Money is information, like bits.

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#52. Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.

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#53. One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can't be done. So they try something that's so audacious and usually end up pulling it off.

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#54. 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.

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#55. So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster.

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#56. Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team.

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#57. Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr are all 'User First, Brands Second' services. The brands are all over these services now. But for the most part, these services didn't do much to bring them. The engaged users did.

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#58. 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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#59. Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.

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#60. 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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#61. Marketing is for companies who have sucky products.

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#62. Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.

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#63. 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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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.

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#68. I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.

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#69. The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing.

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#70. 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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#71. Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

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