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Fred Wilson
American Businessman
Born: Aug 20, 1961
Business Companies Great Money People You
Related authors: Bill Gates Henry Ford Jim Rohn Les Brown Peter Drucker Stephen Covey Steve Jobs Warren Buffett
I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing. Fred Wilson
Good Censorship Free Free Speech Think Good Thing Like Just Bigot Thing Speech
I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge. Fred Wilson
Knowledge Reputation Between Identity Interested Really Intersection
To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently. Fred Wilson
You See Wired Little Requires Differently Things
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
People Building Right People About Having Small Manage Product Team Large Right
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
You Business Communication Management Feedback Building Scale Possible Systems Investing Efficiently Processes Means Team Routines
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
Business Sheep Herd Recipe Folks Purchasing Follow Investments Investors Highly Disaster Venture Venture Capital Just Want Capital Many Momentum
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
Great Great Things Try Young About Something Entrepreneurs Know Audacious Off End Up Done Things Pulling
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
Great World Financed More Entrepreneurs Invest Ideas Getting Going Companies
Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale. Fred Wilson
Scale Should Early
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
Best Privacy Will Job Most Ultimately Managing Successful User Companies
Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web. Fred Wilson
Facebook People Other Web Unstoppable Lot Things
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
Finance Great You Business Quality Will First Other Market Way Financing Something Also Great Way Equity Fit Than Improve Want Customer Customers Product Your Help Reasons Many
Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps. Fred Wilson
Entrepreneur Caring Having Investors Supportive Being Hard Helps
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
Long Enough Kids Out Well Well Enough Spouse Get Hang Your Hard Apparently Works Skype
Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook. Fred Wilson
Game Clever Hook Adoption Implementation Particularly Dynamic Social
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. Fred Wilson
You Technology Valuable Think Station System About More Cable True New Stern Him Content Becomes Becoming Real Howard Stern Ultimately Branded Get York Listen Commodity Just Use Radio Radio Station Niche
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
Myself People About Stuff Like Talk Make Make It Happen Going Happen Happening Who
All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles. Fred Wilson
Think Market Boom Markets Exaggerated More Venture Venture Capital Capital Cycles Bust Even
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
Needs News Fluid Free Medium Visitors Web Through Driven Because Opinion Very Links Discussion Via Anything Much Certainly Flow
When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening. Fred Wilson
You People Listening Say Laugh Stupidest Heard Company Ever Thing
I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world. Fred Wilson
World Will Stronger Believe Android Developed Developed World Developing Developing World Than
Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software. Fred Wilson
Money Slow Free Software Costs Proprietary Yahoo Requires Fast
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
People Increasing Harnessing Ways Those Web About Share Attention Highly Dollars Going Billions Billions Of Dollars Capture Flow
Profiles aren't journalism. Fred Wilson
Journalism Profiles

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