Accept diversity and don't take any crap.

Customers can tell you how to evolve a product, but they can't show you how to make a leap.

Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.

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.

Skillful pitching... is a necessary, but not sufficient, part of raising capital. More important are the realities of your organization: Are you building something meaningful, long lasting, and valuable to society?

The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started.

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