The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.

You want an idea about what you can say. I know it sounds like a bad idea but here's specifically why its actually a great one. You want to sound crazy but you want to ask to be right.

If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.

Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.

You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things.

I myself used to believe ideas didn't matter that much, but I'm very sure that's wrong now.

One of the great and terrible things about starting a start up is that you get no credit for trying.