World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.

Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.

In crisis times, it's actually not more difficult to motivate your staff, because everyone gets much more focused on how they control their own economic destiny. So, what you do is you have clear communication, which is always a good leadership technique, and you talk about how you can build something good and strong in the future, and how you can work together in order to do that.

So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.

One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.

The reality is: a founder is someone who deals with a ton of different headaches and no one is universally super powered.

One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.