So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.

The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.

Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day

It's an old - and true - cliche that VCs rarely actually say 'no' - more often they say 'maybe', or 'not right now', or 'my partners aren't sure', or 'that's interesting, let me think about it'

The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.