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.
I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.
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.
I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world.
All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.
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.
Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.
To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.
I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.
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.
Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale.
Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.
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.
