There is the opportunity to do more and better if you're smaller and more nimble.

My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high