Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilsonis an American businessman, venture capitalist and blogger. Wilson is the co-founder of Union Square Ventures, a New York City-based venture capital firm with investments in Web 2.0 companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Zynga, Kickstarter, and 10gen...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth20 August 1961
CountryUnited States of America
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Everyone here at Saks Fifth Avenue is thrilled to be contributing to this incredible cause in this, our seventh year of continued support in finding a cure for all women's cancers. With the help of our partners Mercedes-Benz USA, the Entertainment Industry Foundation's Women's Cancer Research Fund, designer Diane von Furstenberg, and actress Hilary Swank, this year's shopping event will fund innovative cancer research that will revolutionize diagnostic and testing procedures, and change the future of all women's cancers.
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Businesses are a legacy we can pass on to our sons and daughters. We need our own businesses to have more of a say-so in our communities.
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I'm not saying M.B.A.s can't be great entrepreneurs. They can. But you don't need a degree to figure out it's costing you $5,000 per month to run your business, so you need $30,000 to keep it going for six more months.
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We've got to be very, very careful, ... We don't want to put the problem into the community either.
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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 venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing.
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Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.
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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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We have energized Saks Fifth Avenue's tradition of celebrating the holidays with excitement, innovation and great style. We are thrilled to have partnered with Philips to create this incredible break-through program, as a gift to our customers and the city of New York.
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The only dangerous hurricanes so far are the ones we've been drinking. We can't get out, so we might as well have fun.
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The only dangerous hurricanes so far are the ones we've been drinking.
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If you are successful, you will be cloned. That's life. In fact, it's a sign that you've made it when clones of your website, mobile app, and business start cropping up.
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Politics and government have been a terrible place to invest; education has been a terrible place to invest, but that is because the entrenched interests make it a terrible place to invest. The way you invest in those sectors is you go against the entrenched interests; you try and disrupt the entrenched interests, not to service them.
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When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening.