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

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.

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

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.

I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.