I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.

Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.

The only person who can put you out of business, in the early days, is yourself.

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.

Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.

Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.