"Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web."
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"Games are the most social of all things on the web."
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"Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people."
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"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 Internet to bubble. And the third, at USV, has been web 2 to mobile. I have always used a new firm to denote a new investment phase for me. Throw away the old. Start with the new."
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"Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world."
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"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 than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product."
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"I get everything that satisfies my soul from bringing together objects that are in the world, manipulating them, working with spatial arrangements, and having things presented in the way I want to see them."
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"Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets."
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"Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace."
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"Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps."
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"Marketing is for companies who have sucky products."
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"The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads."
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"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."
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"If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl."
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"Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one."
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"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 you want to be in front of the largest number of users, you need to be on Android."
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"It's not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership."
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"The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services."
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"It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up."
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"I use beauty as a way of helping people to receive difficult or upsetting ideas. The topical issues are merely a vehicle for making one aware of one's own perceptual shift-which is the real thrill."
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