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.

Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.

Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.

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

You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.