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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games play people
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.
strategy units user-experience
The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.
artist focus sticks
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.
country home sacrifice
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.
real ideas issues
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.
team communication mean
Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.
soul together world
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.
dad years parent
When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.
believe play numbers
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.
data decision driven
Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.
technology internet platforms
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.
competition want needs
If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented.
business real reading
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.
entrepreneur tools reputation
It's not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership.