Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.

Open, honest communication is the best foundation for any relationship, but remember that at the end of the day it's not what you say or what you do, but how you make people feel that matters the most.

Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you.

Inspire other communities and cities to reinvent themselves.

I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.

I think a much better use of time and resources is to really focus on your existing users or customers and figure out what changes can you make in the Web site, the service, the product, whatever, to get them to come back more often to generate that repeat business and once you kind of figure out that formula, then when you get new customers the whole thing just kind of grows exponentially.

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.