Top 79 Quotes & Sayings by Fred Wilson - Page 2

Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets.

I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.

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.

Profiles aren't journalism.

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.

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.

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

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.

Markets come and go. Good business don't.

Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.

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

The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented.

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