Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.

Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.