Willingness to learn is important, willingness to act on what you learn is critical.

Part of what software has to do is explain itself. So to write good software you have to understand how little users understand. They’re going to walk up to the software with no preparation, and...

Amidst all the hype and hoopla around this business, I wanted to emphasize the challenge—it is seductive but the failure rate is very high. And those who fail have no good place to go.

Life’s too short to build something nobody wants.

For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.

Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y’s who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf,...

1. Do consumers recognize that they have the problem you are trying to solve?2. If there was a solution, would they buy it?3. Would they buy it from us?4. Can we build a solution for...

Time is your enemy: Portfolio companies always take twice as much capital and twice as long to exit. Early-stage companies rarely meet milestones as planned and always burn cash faster than anticipated.

Passion is the most expensive currency in the world! Start convincing others to get richer. A passionate team can achieve anything. other currencies come later.

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.

My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation...

When you start to wander about in some delusion which is something apart from you yourself, then your surroundings are not real anymore, and your mind is not real anymore. If you yourself are deluded,...

Do what you love and love what you do, with excellence.

When it’s about your life, it’s time to be selfish.

We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn’t about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.

In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.

Oh, I am sorry, I do not feel well.

Entrepreneur, if your going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.

When you run a business, your business is totally different from others. This means your lifestyle, your routine and what you make out of your business is totally different. You lead a different life compared...

Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days.

Fred wasn’t convinced, telling Charlie that such a service would never work and that other companies that had tried to make Twitter-like products had all failed.

The most important thing is to forget all gaining ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture.

A person who doesn’t have a structured way of writing their goals will experience disorder, even in the comfort zone.

Aprendre dels errors està sobrevalorat

A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place.

When strategy, culture, and brand harmonize, they amplify one another and resonate loud and clear.

Part of the reward of entrepreneurship lies in having the courage to believe in yourself and take action.

If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it’s bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals.

Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.

Embrace iteration as the road to improvement, but don’t let that lull you into rolling out poorly-thought-out crap.

It’s a myth that an entrepreneur cannot work in a corporation. It’s all in the mindset.

It’s not about the content we are creating but how much content our customers are creating for us.

Paranoia is acceptable in the new friendship paradigm. Worrying that your best employees or customers might leave is ok, as long as you put in place an active strategy to offset any possibility of that...

My best ideas come in the shower, where I’m showered with water, but also ideas.

If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.

An “eye” on the vision is more important than an “I” on the vision.

If you take one typewriter and build 100, you’ve made horizontal progress. If you have a typewriter and build a word processor, you have made vertical progress.

Entrepreneur, noun: someone who takes calculated risks to add value to wider society with the hope of making money and building wealth

Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.

Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that’s technically pretty challenging—to take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it.

This is an emotional request to the for-profit startups I help to build, strategize, and monetize. I do it for free because I care for you and your vision. I don’t take an equity or...

90% of Startups fail. Come in to be the 90% until we shift to rest 10%. 😉

The challenge for the entrepreneur is to find your passion and make fear history.

It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.

A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they’re regular PCs and so they’re not always the most reliable.

People think entrepreneurs are all about fame and money. I was never in for either. And, will never be. This is a much bigger fight.

Entrepreneurs see what others can’t, do what others won’t, and accomplish what others dream.

Sometimes you live life, and sometimes life happens to you. But you always get to choose what you do about it.” Devon Brooks

The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.