If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.
The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people’s fears.
Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.
Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
The future is sooner and stranger than you think.
A little-known company with a realistic framework that appeals to entrepreneurial employees is going to be more attractive than a famous company that treats its people like disposable assets.
If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective.
If you don’t start out aiming for the big game, you almost never can get there.
When I’m raising money, this fundraising, I’m thinking about the next fundraising. I’m thinking how I’m set up for it.
What great founders do is seek the networks that will be essential to their task. Usually it’s best to have two or three people on a team, rather than a solo founder.
Help the people in your network. And let them help you.
I am most heartened when I’m talking to a team when they’re reasoning to each other.
In software, speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware, if you screw it up, you’re dead. So accuracy really matters.
We don’t celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning.
It’s very conventional to say that you’re a contrarian these days.
The person passionate about what he or she is doing will outwork and outlast the guy motivated solely by making money.
An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.
For life in permanent beta, the trick is to never stop starting.
Start a personal blog and begin developing a public reputation and public portfolio of work that’s not tied to your employer.
If you’re in permanent beta in your career, twenty years of experience actually is twenty years of experience because each year will be marked by new, enriching challenges and opportunities. Permanent beta is essentially a lifelong commitment to continuous personal growth. Get busy livin’, or get busy dyin’. If.