You should have an investment thesis that essentially says why you think this is potentially a good idea.

Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.

You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.

I think the right way to do this is just to step up and do it, so I actually think we'll see more of that over the next coming weeks, because I think they'll say, "We'd like to be good for business and quiet on politics, but this is too urgent, it is too much of a key crisis in who we are going to become as Americans. We can risk too much, and so we have to step forward." And I think you will see more and more people stepping forward, like Howard Schultz, Steve Case and other folks, in order to try to make a difference in this [Donald Trump] election.

Democracy is always frustrating.

Not only CAN anyone be an entrepreneur, but they MUST be.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.