Small teams move faster than big teams.

Think about how much it costs to learn more. Sometimes you want to build confidence by knocking off the easy things.

You have to make the decision about whether you want to avoid or you want to overcome the resistance.

It takes a great deal of humility to recognize you have made a wrong turn on the road to successful innovation, but better to stop and try a radically different approach then to continue down the wrong route for too long.

Aside from the equivalent of blowing up the lab or letting a pathogen escape, the only failure is spending too long or too much money to learn.

Of course, it is worth it to take the time to think carefully through your assumptions, and ensure you at least have hypotheses around how you will create value. But use the analysis as a way to focus attention on the most critical assumptions, rather than spend a ton of time massaging the numbers.

People who live in more than two countries are more successful innovators.