There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of options and we just have to discover all of them.

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

The biggest mistake we see companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push out information.

No matter your sector, chances are that people are already twittering about your products, your brand, your company or at least your industry.

Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.

The Lean Startup isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business, it's about what we can learn from those businesses to improve virtually everything we do. I imagine Lean Startup principles applied to government programs, to healthcare, and to solving the world's great problems. It's ultimately an answer to the question: How can we learn more quickly what works, and discard what doesn't?

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.