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• 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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  Jobs, Successful, Best Job

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• Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.

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  Data, Decision, Driven

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• The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

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  Fundraising, Facts, Raises

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• I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

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  Identity, Reputation, Intersections

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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.

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  Morning, Add, Blogging

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• 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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  Technology, Internet, Platforms

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• 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.

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  Real, Ideas, Issues

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• Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.

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  Team, People, Building

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• New York's niche is content, and content is becoming more valuable. Just think about what is more valuable: MTV or the cable system that you use to get MTV? Howard Stern or the radio station you use to listen to him? Ultimately, technology becomes a commodity, and content - real, true branded content - becomes more valuable.

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  New York, Real, Technology

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• If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

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  Ideas, Ifs

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• Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

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  Ideas, Obvious Things, People

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• Markets come and go. Good business don't.

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  Good Business, Comes And Goes

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• 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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  Team, Communication, Mean

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• 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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  Ideas, Entrepreneur, World

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• I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

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  Crazy, Thinking, People

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• 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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  Strong, Years, Long

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• You simply can't be tentative in a startup. You have to go for it at every chance you get. And if the leader of the organization is anxious, his or her fear pervades the organization. Everything comes from the top in a company. So if you are starting a company or building one, face your fears and move past them. It's critically important to your company.

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  Moving, Past, Organization

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• Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business.

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  Needs, Pace, Use

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• Money is information, like bits.

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  Information, Bits

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• I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world.

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  Believe, Stronger, World

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• Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.

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  Business, Trying, Problem

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• 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.

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  Entrepreneur, Tools, Reputation

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Good Things

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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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  Space, Disease, Energy

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• When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

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  Dad, Years, Parent

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