Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.

I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

When everyone starts sounding the same, that's when you know the words and phrases have become clichés. Instead of speaking in clichés, I encourage people just to be themselves, let their passion burn brightly, and go work on things they love spending their time on.

Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life.

From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you and your comfortable with it, the easier it is for somebody like me to say tell me more.