Companies can add value and simultaneously promote themselves if their product or service truly improves the lives of their customers. I mean really improve lives, not wishful thinking, rationalization. That's the acid test.

Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: "I need money to buy tools." You flunked the IQ test, I mean every tool that you need is free!

Leverage your brand. You shouldn't let two guys in a garage eat your shorts.

Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.

When you give people too many choices it makes them hesitate and not buy stuff.

It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.

Klout and various measurements of influence are fun. I love to see where I score on them, but there's a computer algorithm behind the calculation. If there's an algorithm, it can be gamed. Even if it's not gameable, you have to take a leap of faith that the number of followers, retweets, mentions, whatever really mean something.