Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.

News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's undervalued and underinvested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.

Marketing, when done well, is about story telling.

Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.