Fred Wilson

Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened.

— Fred Wilson

Marketing is for companies who have sucky products.

— Fred Wilson

Games are the most social of all things on the web.

— Fred Wilson

Money is information, like bits.

— Fred Wilson

Profiles aren't journalism.

— Fred Wilson

Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.

— Fred Wilson

Markets come and go. Good business don't.

— 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

Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

— Fred Wilson

The best talent in the venture industry doesn't work in large companies and won't work in large companies.

— 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

Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale.

— Fred Wilson

There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.

— Fred Wilson

I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.

— Fred Wilson

Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that…

— Fred Wilson

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently…

— Fred Wilson

Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.

— 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 Web is going to capture an increasing share of people's attention, and billions of dollars are going to flow in. What…

— Fred Wilson

Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors…

— Fred Wilson

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

I believe the mobile OS market will play out very similarly to Windows and Macintosh, with Android in the role of Windows.…

— Fred Wilson

Politics and government have been a terrible place to invest; education has been a terrible place to invest, but that is because…

— Fred Wilson

When there were not very many Internet companies, the supply of Internet companies to the market was small and the appetite for…

— Fred Wilson

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

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

Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something…

— Fred Wilson

I also like to use a sensational headline. Many people read blogs in aggregators, which generally show only the headline. So you…

— Fred Wilson

It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.

— Fred Wilson

Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.

— Fred Wilson

To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.

— Fred Wilson

Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.

— Fred Wilson

When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening.

— Fred Wilson

Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web.

— Fred Wilson

The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.

— Fred Wilson

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

— Fred Wilson