When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite.

Great opportunities almost never fit your schedule.

The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.

Democracy is always frustrating.

If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective.

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

A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user.