American - Businessman | August 20, 1961 -
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.
Fred Wilson
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The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.
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Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.
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Games are the most social of all things on the web.
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Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
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Marketing is for companies who have sucky products.
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Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team.
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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 make it a terrible place to invest. The way you invest in those sectors is you go against the entrenched interests; you try and disrupt the entrenched interests, not to service them.
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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.
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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.
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All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.
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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.
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