Your employees know each other better than they know you.

You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.

In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.

Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.

The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.