Foursquare’s adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.
All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.
Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.
Marketing is for companies who have sucky products.
Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long.
The companies that do the best job on managing a user’s privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.
It’s upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend’s start-up.
I’m really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.
The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.
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.
There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.
I’m a free speech bigot. I don’t like censorship; I just don’t think it’s a good thing.
To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.
Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.
If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented.
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.
Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that’s the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that’s my world.
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.
Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.
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.