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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.

  • The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

  • I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world.

  • We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.

    Space   Disease   Energy  
    "Can the Crowd Be More Patient" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.
  • 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.

    "A Veterans Day Story" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.
  • I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

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

  • 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.

    People   Stuff   Happens  
  • All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.

  • If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

    Ideas   Ifs  
    "Fred Wilson: My Harvard Business School Lecture" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2011.
  • Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.

    Clever   Games   Adoption  
    "Fred Wilson: Marketing". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2011.
  • I also like to use a sensational headline. Many people read blogs in aggregators, which generally show only the headline. So you have to give people a reason to click through. Blogs need to be real and personal. Reading it should be like hanging out with you. I play music for my readers. I show them videos I like. I tell them what I did over the weekend. And I tell them what is happening in the technology, Internet, and VC markets.

    Success   Business   Real  
  • Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.

    "Startup Financing 101: Capital Equipment Loans" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2011.
  • If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented.

  • 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.

    Links   Flow   Visitors  
  • 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.

    Strong   Years   Long  
    "Can the Crowd Be More Patient" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.
  • 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.

    Mean   Ideas   People  
  • Markets come and go. Good business don't.

  • 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.

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

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

  • If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile.

    Way   Scales   Performing  
  • 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.

  • There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.

    "What We Are Seeing" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.
  • 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.

    Morning   Add   Blogging  
  • There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.

  • 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.

    Soul   Together   Want  
  • I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

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

    "Fred Wilson: Marketing". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2011.
  • 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.

    Real   Ideas   Issues  
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    Fred Wilson

    • Born: August 20, 1961
    • Occupation: Venture capitalist