When you come from nothing, you're basically just trying to get escape velocity, which means you and your family don't have to worry about being broke and that's all I ever cared about.

The thing about angel investing, which I get into in the book a lot is, you actually don't have to understand the idea, you don't have to know if the idea is going to win, you just need to know if a founder's going to win in their life. I can just tell by looking at somebody if they'll be successful in their life. I don't even have to have a conversation. I just look at their eyes while they're talking and it becomes very clear to me.

If everybody has a voice, then you end up with something average.

I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product

No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

I've developed some deep relationships over the past couple of years blogging and I realize that those relationships manifest themselves in the links I find when I do my x a daily ego search over at Technorati.