These all sounded really bad, but they turned out to be good. If they had sounded really good, there would have been too many people working on them.

We talk to a team they've gotten new things done, that's the best predictor we have that a company will be successful.

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

The thirteenth search engine- and without all the features of a web portal, most people thought that was pointless.

Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.

If someone is getting every decision wrong, that's when you need to act, and at that point it'll be painfully aware to everyone.

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