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
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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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One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can't be done. So they try something that's so audacious and usually end up pulling it off.
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Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.
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The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing.
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It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.
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So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster.
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It's not a correction ? it's a crash.
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Everyone here at Saks Fifth Avenue is thrilled to be contributing to this incredible cause in this, our seventh year of continued support in finding a cure for all women's cancers. With the help of our partners Mercedes-Benz USA, the Entertainment Industry Foundation's Women's Cancer Research Fund, designer Diane von Furstenberg, and actress Hilary Swank, this year's shopping event will fund innovative cancer research that will revolutionize diagnostic and testing procedures, and change the future of all women's cancers.
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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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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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All of us in the venture capital area are going through a triage, where we have to decide which portfolio companies are so wounded we will never save them, ... As horrible as it is to go through that process, it's a cleansing process. To have some branches grow and bear fruit, you have to trim others.