As far as I'm concerned, Twitter has wiped out Facebook. I'm done with Facebook.

Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

The road to riches is never straight and narrow. It can be riddled with financial land mines.

Know everything about the companies and people you are going to be negotiating with. Insist on getting the names of everyone participating in the negotiations. Leave no stone unturned; find out as much as you can.

I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.

Being an employee is a bad outcome. You want to avoid that. Being an employee is never a good outcome. That's just an opinion.