Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.

Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.

Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.

You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important.

A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.

There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it.

Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.