Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life. Votes: 9
Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey. Votes: 7
Make sure the thing you are working on is something you love. Votes: 7
Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners. Votes: 7
While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do. Votes: 6
Startups are transforming our society. Over the past 100 years, we've gone from an industrial era, where a hierarchical structure dominated business and society, to a post information era where the network is rapidly disrupting the hierarchy and transforming the way we work and live, Votes: 4
I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them. Votes: 3
Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning. Votes: 2
The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong Votes: 1
The most challenging thing for a young entrepreneur is to think long-term. When you are 22 years old, itâs hard to think in 22-year increments since thatâs as long as youâve been alive. But itâs really important to view your life as an entrepreneur as a long journey that consists of many short-term cycles. Votes: 1
Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%. Votes: 1
Itâs not about having a Silicon Valley attitudeâitâs about having an entrepreneurial attitude. Itâs about partnering with other organizations in and around your area. Itâs about thinking big with entrepreneurs that sit next to you in your coworking space. Itâs about collaborating with tech gurus, social media wizards and community leaders at cool business events. Itâs the people that make a community an entrepreneurial oneânot the locationâand itâs up to you to contribute. Votes: 0
You canât motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated. Votes: 0
I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person. Votes: 0
From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you and your comfortable with it, the easier it is for somebody like me to say tell me more. Votes: 0
I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s. Votes: 0