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Profiles aren't journalism.
Money is information, like bits.
Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened.
Markets come and go. Good business don't.
Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.
Marketing is for companies who have sucky products.
Games are the most social of all things on the web.
Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.
To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.
Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale.
Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.
I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.
Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.
There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.
I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.
I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.
I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.
It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.
I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world.
If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.
The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.
When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.
Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.
Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web.
Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.
When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening.
The best talent in the venture industry doesn't work in large companies and won't work in large companies.
If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented.
Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software.
It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.
Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.
Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long.
All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.
Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team.
Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.
The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success
Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.
The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.
Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets.
The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.
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.
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 on that investment.
Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.
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 exciting.
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.
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 is a great sacrifice.
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.
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.
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.