Evangelism is selling a dream.

If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don't have a business.

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.

You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship."

If you just enchanted one person per day, you would make a big dent in the universe.

There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.

If you truly don't have competition, then zoom out until you can define some. Competition can be as simple as the reliance on the status quo, Microsoft (since at some point Microsoft will compete with everyone for everything), or researchers in universities. Pick something, because saying you have no competition at all is a nonstarter.