Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.

You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.

I think Wall Street is very important, especially to tech companies. Wall Street will get in their rhythm and go fund tech companies, and tech companies will go create jobs and employ a lot of people, so there's that aspect of Wall Street.

While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues… In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.

I look to work with businesses that know what they are doing but need larger distribution or exposure.

If you can't come clean and tell investors how and why you failed, that raises a red flag. They need to see that you learned from it and came back stronger.

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.