Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.

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

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.

A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision.

What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget?

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.