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

You can look at the cost structure of an incumbent company and discover: where are they not going to be able to drop their prices... because that business model is fundamental to the existence of the company.

Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.

Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.

What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

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.

Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.