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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. -- Fred Wilson
Marketing is for companies who have sucky products. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- Fred Wilson
The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- Fred Wilson
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
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. -- 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. -- Fred Wilson
Markets come and go. Good business don't. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- Fred Wilson
Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- Fred Wilson
When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- Fred Wilson
The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success -- Fred Wilson
Games are the most social of all things on the web. -- Fred Wilson
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
The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- Fred Wilson
The best talent in the venture industry doesn't work in large companies and won't work in large companies. -- Fred Wilson
Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened. -- Fred Wilson
Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook. -- 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. -- Fred Wilson
Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one. -- Fred Wilson
I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- Fred Wilson
Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets. -- Fred Wilson
Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps. -- Fred Wilson
To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently. -- Fred Wilson
I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- Fred Wilson
Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software. -- Fred Wilson
Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase. -- Fred Wilson
All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles. -- Fred Wilson
Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world. -- Fred Wilson
When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- 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. -- Fred Wilson
If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup. -- Fred Wilson
Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it. -- Fred Wilson
Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace. -- Fred Wilson
Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven. -- Fred Wilson
The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore. -- Fred Wilson
There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business. -- Fred Wilson
It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- Fred Wilson
I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- Fred Wilson
Money is information, like bits. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- Fred Wilson
Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing. -- Fred Wilson
I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world. -- Fred Wilson
I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- Fred Wilson
Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people. -- Fred Wilson
Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- Fred Wilson
If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- Fred Wilson
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
Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- Fred Wilson
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. -- 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. -- Fred Wilson
Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web. -- Fred Wilson