Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed

It's better to have a few users love your product than for a lot of users to sort of like it.

For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.

The idea should come first, the startup should come second.

A board member of mine used to say sales fix everything in a startup, and that is really true.

Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.

In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies.