Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.

Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team.

New York's niche is content, and content is becoming more valuable. Just think about what is more valuable: MTV or the cable system that you use to get MTV? Howard Stern or the radio station you use to listen to him? Ultimately, technology becomes a commodity, and content - real, true branded content - becomes more valuable.

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.

If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile.

Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business.

I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.