A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.
The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success.
Money is information, like bits.
Markets come and go. Good business don’t.
If you have an idea that you can’t get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.
Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don’t do the obvious thing.
Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren’t getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business.
I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world.
Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.
If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That’s why Twitter is performing so well on mobile.
The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It’s Web services.
It’s not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership.
There are so many startups out there raising money. I don’t think this is a bad thing. It’s a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.
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.