All Fred Wilson Quotes
- Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long. Apparently
- The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful. Best
- The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore. Anymore
- 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… All
- There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business. Business
- To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently. Differently
- 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… Backed
- 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… Discussion
- 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… Business
- 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… Ad
- My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second, at Flatiron, was… All
- 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… Becomes
- 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… Adapt
- 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.… Bad
- 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… Amount
- 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… Approach
- 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.… Business
- 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… Built
- 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… Android
- Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale. Data