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.

If you don't know who your customer is, you don't know what quality is.

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

The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.

Products a start-up builds are really experiments…Learning about how to build a sustainable business is the outcome of those experiments [which follow] a three-step process: Build, measure, learn.” “[A startup is] … an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

At IMVU, we opened up our board meetings to the whole company.

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty