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"Not true about NYC and failure. Dave Morgan failed with real media and came roaring back with TACODA which is our biggest exit so far NY loves risk takers and accepts failure better than anywhere I know" - Fred Wilson

"Not true about NYC and failure. Dave Morgan failed with real media and came roaring back with TACODA which is our biggest exit so far NY loves risk takers and accepts failure better than anywhere I know" - Fred Wilson

"danny - i added your post at the bottom of mine as a related link. this just points to the fact that twitter has got to start providing some analytics tools." - Fred Wilson

"I think its that geeks prefer macs and they also are interested in the stuff I write about" - Fred Wilson

"I don't want to mess with the readers who use rss like that" - Fred Wilson

"This all work's to the advantage of firms like foundry. We have a similar benefit in NYC" - Fred Wilson

"Fortunately startups need less capital so SV's dominance as a startup capital hub is not as big of a deal as it was 10-15 years ago" - Fred Wilson

"So what's your gut based on the logs I posted danny? Google or twitter sends more?" - Fred Wilson

"I'm not counting them at all (yet) But that is useful info. Thanks for sharing it" - Fred Wilson

"Of course there are. But as a percentage of each user base, I think mac users trend more savvy and windows users" - Fred Wilson

"Great comment. We need more data and twitter needs to build in some governors to ensure spam is not useful" - Fred Wilson

"The gotham gal is looking for that business oppty" - Fred Wilson

"That would be this blog" - Fred Wilson

"True. But I wrote this post on a blackberry on a redeye coming back from talking at an entrepreneur meetup in seattle. VCs will travel if there's a good deal to be had" - Fred Wilson

"Shri - i totally agree with you on this. but the details are in the implementation. i do not think a pay wall across the entire site is the way to go. i like what the FT has been doing for a few years now, which is you get cookied when you visit their domain. if you visit 10x per month or more, you are asked to pay. this is a very elegant execution of the freemium model, where you use free access to your content to bring readers who aren't regulars, but you use a subscription model to generate revenues from your most loyal readers." - Fred Wilson

So, what...only sophisticated users will know to turn off/clear cookies? therefore it works? - stanleyyork

"well LA has issues, particularly with the funding environment, but that's changing for the better. but if you started in Boston, Seattle, NYC, or a few other places, you might have found it easier going." - Fred Wilson

"are there any other good startups in waterloo? can RIM spawn a whole startup culture?" - Fred Wilson

"i only got 2.5 hours sleep last night scott. i don't have it in me to do that today. but i will. it could be a few more or less than two dozen." - Fred Wilson

"i agree with all of these critiques, some more than others, but they are valid. what can i do to help?" - Fred Wilson

"we made up the word so we can make up what it means!" - Fred Wilson

"i've got my tumblarity moving in the right direction again. phew. i think i can get it to 300 by the end of the day today." - Fred Wilson

"what are the weaknesses (other than defensiveness) that you'd like to see addressed?" - Fred Wilson

"for sure." - Fred Wilson

"oh man. you are a pioneer and a brave one. you should be proud of what youv'e done." - Fred Wilson

"i was going to throw a bunch of suburbia hate into the post, but i felt it was just my personal baggage and so i left it out" - Fred Wilson

"oops. there are two, and they are both really good ones. i was thinking of NYC." - Fred Wilson

"not in google analytics" - Fred Wilson

"well there's one great startup hotbed in the US you haven't lived in. guess what it is?" - Fred Wilson

"totally agree about cultural issues. but the dozen to two dozen startup hotbeds around the world don't suffer from that. when we started flatiron in NYC in 1996, people thought we were crazy. hedge funds were the way to make money. now a lot of people look at the venture/startup ecosystem in NYC with jealousy." - Fred Wilson

"there are a whole bunch of really successful $50mm to $150mm value tech startups in NYC. same with Boston, Boulder, Austin, Seattle, SoCal, europe, israel, india, china, australia, etc, etc i agree about the black swans. but tmtowtdi is true all up and down the scale of companies" - Fred Wilson

"Right. Like me" - Fred Wilson

Yeah, it's my default now. Loads faster, faster with a small amount of tabs. I hate the color red on anything. I like the interface a lot. Sucks I had to stop doing delicious bookmarks, now they're all in the wrong folder in my bookmarks, but, oh well. - Matt Robson