I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii

You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.

The attackers are the people with bold, innovative ideas who are trying to disrupt the status quo and usher in a better way. The defenders are the incumbents who try to defend what they have. We need to bring an attacker mindset to whatever we choose to do.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

When I was trying to popularize the concept of the Internet - ten or 15 years ago - I came up with this concept of "the 5 Cs." Services needed to have content, context, community, commerce, and connectivity. After that, when I was trying to think of what the key management principles were to build into the culture, I started talking about the Ps. The P's were things like passion, perseverance, perspective and people. I think the people aspect is really the most important one.

There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.

The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.