If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.

Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.

If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.

You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.

Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.

I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape is good for consumers, developers, and the platforms alike. Apple brings a smooth elegance to its devices and platform, with the best marketplace experience to boot. Google brings a higher volume of devices as well as a more diverse ecosystem to interact with. The real story here is that Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, ending a two-decade monopoly and creating biggest opportunity for software startups probably ever.

Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.