Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilsonis an American businessman, venture capitalist and blogger. Wilson is the co-founder of Union Square Ventures, a New York City-based venture capital firm with investments in Web 2.0 companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Zynga, Kickstarter, and 10gen...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth20 August 1961
CountryUnited States of America
people
When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening.
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Politics and government have been a terrible place to invest; education has been a terrible place to invest, but that is because the entrenched interests make it a terrible place to invest. The way you invest in those sectors is you go against the entrenched interests; you try and disrupt the entrenched interests, not to service them.
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The most common way customer financing is done is you sell the customer on the product before you've built it or before you've finished it. The customer puts up the money to build the product or finish the product and becomes your first customer. Usually the customer simply wants the product and nothing more.
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If you are successful, you will be cloned. That's life. In fact, it's a sign that you've made it when clones of your website, mobile app, and business start cropping up.
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Businesses are a legacy we can pass on to our sons and daughters. We need our own businesses to have more of a say-so in our communities.
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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.
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He's a wonderful person if for no other reason than the education piece.
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We can't get out, so we might as well have fun.
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Those of us who care are reaching out to get these young fathers involved. My parents' involvement in my upbringing drove me to be involved in my children's lives. It trickles down to the next generation.
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The only dangerous hurricanes so far are the ones we've been drinking.
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The only dangerous hurricanes so far are the ones we've been drinking. We can't get out, so we might as well have fun.
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We haven't invested in the Mining Company, but I want to be friends with Scott because he knows a lot of people.
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I'm not saying M.B.A.s can't be great entrepreneurs. They can. But you don't need a degree to figure out it's costing you $5,000 per month to run your business, so you need $30,000 to keep it going for six more months.
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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.