By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.

If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich.

By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.

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

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.

If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?