The secret of evangelism is Guy's golden touch - whatever is gold, Guy touches. That’s very different than saying whatever Guy touches turns gold.

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

Best way to succeed is to do things for the customer, not to the competition. Very few people buy a product in order to help you hurt the competition. To think otherwise is lunacy.

When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.

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

If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.

People are free or cheap. Marketing: using Twitter or blogs. Cheap or free. Infrastructure: call up Amazon, call up Rackspace, terabytes of data in the clouds, thousand dollars, two thousand dollars.