You know in a startup, you only need three people. You need someone who can make something. You need someone who can sell it. And you need someone to collect the money. That's the only three roles in a startup. So which one are you?

Looking back on my own career, I've come to the conclusion that too much money is worse than too little.

This is the beauty of social media: it helps you find people and then you can contact them fast and inexpensively.

If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.

Take my word for it: More people will like you if you believe that people are good until proven bad.

The key to evangelism is a great product. It is easy, almost unavoidable, to catalyze evangelism for a great product. It is hard, almost impossible, to catalyze evangelism for crap.

I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.