"Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing."
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"If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup."
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"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 the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me."
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"The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success"
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"Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it."
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"The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful."
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"Markets come and go. Good business don't."
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"Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven."
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"Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute."
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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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"Money is information, like bits."
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"You simply can't be tentative in a startup. You have to go for it at every chance you get. And if the leader of the organization is anxious, his or her fear pervades the organization. Everything comes from the top in a company. So if you are starting a company or building one, face your fears and move past them. It's critically important to your company."
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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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"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 return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max."
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"I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge."
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"I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy."
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"Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible."
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"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 invest in."
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"I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world."
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"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 and change the business."
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