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Investing in management means...

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

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It takes great salesmanship t...

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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Customers are a great way to ...

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.

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Yahoo is free, it's fast and ...

Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software.

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Twitter wasn't planned. It ju...

Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened.

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The more entrepreneurs in the...

The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.

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Not only do you have to put y...

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.

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One of the great things about...

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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All markets have boom and bus...

All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.

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The Web is going to capture a...

The Web is going to capture an increasing share of people's attention, and billions of dollars are going to flow in. What Web 2.0 is about is harnessing those dollars in highly leverageable ways.

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So many folks in the venture ...

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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The companies that do the bes...

The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

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I believe the mobile OS marke...

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.

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Venture capital is about capt...

Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.

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Many artists stick to making ...

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.

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I don't like to talk about my...

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.

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Foursquare's adoption of a ga...

Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.

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The Internet is a computing p...

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.

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Venture capitalists are profe...

Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max.

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The most common way customer ...

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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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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