The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision.

It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.

If the plan is to see what happens, a team is guaranteed to succeed - at seeing what happens - but won't necessarily gain validated learning - If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title.

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.

Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.