All Fred Wilson Quotes
- 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
- 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… Country
- Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible. Building
- Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase. Capital
- 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. Apps
- Politics and government have been a terrible place to invest; education has been a terrible place to invest, but that is because the entrenched interests… Been
- 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.… Appetite
- 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… Already Love
- Money is information, like bits. Bits
- A CEO does only three things. Sets the overall vision and strategy of the company and communicates it to all stakeholders. Recruits, hires, and retains… All