My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.

Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.

If every customer is using your product "correctly", you'll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.

Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.

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.