If you're building a startup or any sort of organization, take a few moments to reflect on the qualities that the people you most enjoy working with embody and the user experience of new people joining your organization, from the offer letter to their first day.

As an entrepreneur making decisions for your company, always go back to your first principles of what's important to you and why you started in the first place.

Get the 1.0 out as soon as possible...even if it sucks.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas.

One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on.

As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.

Technology is best when it brings people together.