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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
I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.
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.
The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant. . The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Markets come and go. Good business don't.
Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.
Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long.
I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.