There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.

Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.

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 more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.

Profiles aren't journalism.

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

Marketing is for companies who have sucky products.