If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup. Fred Wilson More Quotes by Fred Wilson More Quotes From Fred Wilson 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. Fred Wilson games play people Profiles aren't journalism. Fred Wilson profile journalism When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good. Fred Wilson dad parent years 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. Fred Wilson reputation entrepreneur tools 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. Fred Wilson focus artist sticks 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. Fred Wilson soul together want To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently. Fred Wilson littles 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. Fred Wilson mean people ideas 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. Fred Wilson visitors flow links 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. Fred Wilson want-something quality educational 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. Fred Wilson scales performing way 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. Fred Wilson careers long years 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. Fred Wilson entrepreneurship good-things thinking 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. Fred Wilson disease space energy Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one. Fred Wilson problem business trying 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. Fred Wilson oysters creativity needs If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented. Fred Wilson competition want needs 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. Fred Wilson business real success I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy. Fred Wilson newsworthy profile want Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase. Fred Wilson value about venture-capital company
