Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.

Profiles aren't journalism.

Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product.

The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.

Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets.

I use beauty as a way of helping people to receive difficult or upsetting ideas. The topical issues are merely a vehicle for making one aware of one's own perceptual shift-which is the real thrill.

The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success