Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase. — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently. — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale. — Fred Wilson Customer Copy Share Image
If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup. — Fred Wilson Entrepreneurship Copy Share Image
The best talent in the venture industry doesn't work in large companies and won't work in large companies. — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people. — Fred Wilson Cities Copy Share Image
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 Army Copy Share Image
It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up. — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can't be done. So they try something… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
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… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven. — Fred Wilson Customer Copy Share Image
Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook… — Fred Wilson Adults Copy Share Image
I use beauty as a way of helping people to receive difficult or upsetting ideas. The topical issues are merely a vehicle… — Fred Wilson Adventure Copy Share Image
If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in… — Fred Wilson Cities Copy Share Image
The most common way customer financing is done is you sell the customer on the product before you've built it or before… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
I believe the mobile OS market will play out very similarly to Windows and Macintosh, with Android in the role of Windows.… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second,… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
New York's niche is content, and content is becoming more valuable. Just think about what is more valuable: MTV or the cable… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
When there were not very many Internet companies, the supply of Internet companies to the market was small and the appetite for… — Fred Wilson Appetite Copy Share Image
Politics and government have been a terrible place to invest; education has been a terrible place to invest, but that is because… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
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… — Fred Wilson Business Copy Share Image
I also like to use a sensational headline. Many people read blogs in aggregators, which generally show only the headline. So you… — Fred Wilson Being real Copy Share Image
Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps. — Fred Wilson Business Copy Share Image
I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy. — Fred Wilson Newsworthy Copy Share Image
There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business. — Fred Wilson Business Copy Share Image
Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing. — Fred Wilson Ideas Copy Share Image
I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy. — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge. — Fred Wilson Identity Copy Share Image
I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world. — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing. — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
