Crowdsourcing is a great way to approach creation because in any given point there's always somebody on the Internet who knows something better than you do.

Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.

How fast you are moving is more important than where you are.

While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.

Accept diversity and don't take any crap.

Inoculate yourself from dangerous bozos.

"Patents make our product defensible." The optimal number of times to use the P word in a presentation is one. Just once, say, "We have filed patents for what we are doing." Done. The second time you say it, venture capitalists begin to suspect that you are depending too much on patents for defensibility. The third time you say it, you are holding a sign above your head that says, "I am clueless."